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spicery en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English spicerie, from Old French espicerie; equivalent to spice + -ery.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Spices, in general.
2. (archaic, countable, uncountable) A repository of spices.
   • Did not cotton spin itself, beef grow, and groceries and spiceries come in from the East and the West, quite comfortably by the side of shams? 1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets: The present time:
   • Then in the hall kitchen, two clerks of the kitchen, a clerk comptroller, a surveyor of the dresser, a clerk of the spicery; all which together kept also a continual mess in the hall; also, in his hall kitchen, he had of master cooks two; and of other cooks, labourers, and children of the kitchen, twelve persons : four yeomen of the silver scullery, two yeomen of the pantry, with two other pastelers under the yeomen. 1815, Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer, Joseph Nightingale, London and Middlesex: or, An historical, commercial, & descriptive survey of the Metropolis of Great-Britain, page 370:

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bg подправки (spices in general)