spicery

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   spices considered collectively; archaic or literary

   European merchants competed for the valuable spicery of the East Indies.

2. 2
   noun

   a spicy flavor or fragrance

   Ginger gave the preserve a warm spicery.

3. 3
   noun

   historical: a storeroom or household office where spices were kept and managed

   The steward locked the costly pepper and cinnamon in the spicery.

From Middle English spicerie, through Old French espicerie from espice, 'spice,' plus the collective and place-forming suffix -erie. It could denote spices themselves, their quality, or the room and office responsible for storing them.

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