spicery
Americannoun
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spices collectively
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the piquant or fragrant quality associated with spices
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obsolete a place to store spices
Etymology
Origin of spicery
1250–1300; Middle English spicerie < Old French espicerie. See spice, -ery
Example Sentences
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They have plenty and variety of provisions for their table; and as for spicery, and other things that the country don't produce, they have constant supplies of them from England.
From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Beverley, Robert
His Twopenny Post-Bag is a perfect "nest of spicery"; where the Cayenne is not spared.
From Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution by Waller, Alfred Rayney
O! the world is wide, you lily flowers, It hath warm forests, cleft by stilly pools, Where every night bathe crowds of stars; and bowers Of spicery hang over.
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Ingelow, Jean
There grow all manner of spicery, more plenteously than in any other country, as of ginger, cloves-gilofre, canell, seedwall, nutmegs and maces.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir
The play is choicely seasoned throughout with the good-humoured old statesman's spicery; and our captain is the theme that draws most of it out.
From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Hudson, Henry Norman
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