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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No scent-bag was ever stuffed with such rare spicery.
From Berry And Co. by Yates, Dornford
Sweet dews, cool-breathing airs, and spaces wide Of precious spicery wafted with soft wind: Fair comely bodies goodly beautifi’d Snow-limb’d, rose-cheek’d, ruby-lip’d, pearl-ted, star eyn’d Their parts each fair in fit proportion all conbin’d.
From Democritus Platonissans by More, Henry
Mary of Magdala, when the moon had set, Forth to the garden that was with night dews wet, Fared in the dark—woe-wan and bent was she, 'Neath many pounds' weight of fragrant spicery.
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Ingelow, Jean
I thought that it was the box of boxes that he extremely wished, but the Admiral thought it was the spicery, and that he must have known them wherever he got the gold.
From 1492 by Johnston, Mary
And herewithal there was such a savour as all the spicery of the world had been there.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 by Malory, Thomas, Sir
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