Spicery
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Spices, in general. countable, uncountable
- 2 the property of being seasoned with spice and so highly flavored wordnet
- 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."
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More examples"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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