Meaning of spicery | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Spices, in general.
   countable, uncountable
2. A repository of spices.
   archaic, countable, uncountable

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.”

“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?”

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