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spicehouse en · NOUN

Etymology

From spice + house.

Meanings

1. A warehouse where spices are stored.
   • They showed her the spicehouses, where plants and trees from lands lost long ago were kept bathed in continual heat: they showed her the harvest of nuts and berries and fruits and sugars such as Inland had never dreamed of. 2022, Gwyneth Jones, Ann Halam, Skybreaker:
   • Down here in the waterfront area we have a very unique market, simply because you have the fish on the waterfront, you have groceries, fruit, you have produce, you have spicehouses, you have pickling-houses, for example. 1964, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works, Real Property Acquisition Practices and Adequacy of Compensation in Federal and Federally Assisted Programs: Hearings..., page 145:

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