spicery

American  

[spahy-suh-ree] / ˈspaɪ sə ri /

noun

plural

spiceries

1. spice.

2. spicy flavor or fragrance.

3. Archaic. a storeroom or place for spices.

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spicery British  

/ ˈspaɪsərɪ /

noun

1. spices collectively

2. the piquant or fragrant quality associated with spices

3. obsolete a place to store spices

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Etymology

Origin of spicery

1250–1300; Middle English spicerie < Old French espicerie. See spice, -ery

Example Sentences

The fur-hunters have held the hunters of gold and precious stones and spicery a close race in the rank of world movers.

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Gad: It is a company of Ishmaelites, from Gilead, with their camels, bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going down into Egypt.

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For he is gone to town, to bring a whole magazine of spiceries: his coat-pockets are wide.

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Magellan, full of his project of finding a short way to the rich spicery by sailing West, now sought the favor of the Spanish court.

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And therewithal was such savor As bloweth over sea From a land of many colored flowers And trees of spicery.

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