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Answer for the clue "A storeroom where candles are kept ", 9 letters:
chandlery

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Word definitions for chandlery in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A chandlery was originally the office in a medieval household responsible for wax and candles , as well as the room in which the candles were kept. It could be headed by a chandler . The office was subordinated to the kitchen, and only existed as a separate ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. candles and other commodities sold by a chandler a storeroom where candles are kept

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from Middle French chandelerie , from chandelier (see chandler ).

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The art or trade of candle-making. 2 A business, shop or warehouse used in candle-making. 3 An operation (usually, a business) which provides supplies. 4 The merchandise of a chandler.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chandlery \Chan"dler*y\, n. Commodities sold by a chandler. [1913 Webster] ||

Usage examples of chandlery.

The way was lined with shops, sheds, shipyards and sail lofts, ropewalks and chandleries, all very busy.

Of all the buildings that had held factors or traders, only the chandlery remained occupied, and a thin trail of smoke wound upward from the chimney.

Once the patrol passed, with the blur shield still around him, Cerryl slipped along the side street toward the chandlery Lyasa had placed on the list.

Both were pinned against the chandlery wall with lances against their chests.

He could feel the eyes on him as he, Lyasa, and the lancer column rode away from the chandlery and then toward the square on the way back to his headquarters.

There was the UPS driver who delivered parts to the Shipshape Chandlery, a slightly plump man in his early forties.

My grandfather, for whom I was named, was a hero of the Revolution, and the founder of a ship chandlery which made him an exceedingly wealthy man.

The girl in the marina office, next to the chandlery on the far side of the hotel, seemed rather startled by their arrival, perhaps understandably enough.

Almost no one comes to the chandleries or the shops herenot during the day.

Esad'sa store of odd items, neither a chandlery nor a miller's market nor a weaver's shop, but a place that held items partaking selectedly of all.

There hadn't been any food left out at the Meal Hall, and he hadn't seen any street vendors or even an open chandlery on the way back from the south gate.

He should have saved some of the cheese he'd bought at the chandlery two days earlier.

Even the chandlery had none, or so littlefifty cubits' worth of light lineas to be worthless.

Airhaven's single thoroughfare was a hoop of lightweight alloy deckplates lined with shops and stalls, chandleries, cafes and airshipmen's hotels.

Since the first day she had started as invoice clerk in his father's boat and chandlery business, Jack had been a real friend.