Spicery

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Spices, in general. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the property of being seasoned with spice and so highly flavored wordnet
  3. 3
    A repository of spices. archaic, countable, uncountable

    "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."

Etymology

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

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