Crossword clues for spicery
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spicery \Spi"cer*y\, n. [OF. espicerie, F. ['e]picerie.]
Spices, in general.
--Chaucer.A repository of spices.
--Addison.
Wiktionary
n. 1 spice, in general. 2 (context archaic English) A repository of spices.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A spicery was the office in a medieval household responsible for spices, as well as the room in which the spices were kept. It was headed by a spicerer. The office was subordinated to the kitchen or the wardrobe, and existed as a separate office only in larger households. It was closely connected with other offices of the kitchen, such as the saucery and the scullery. The term is largely obsolete today, and if used at all is more often simply a synonym for spices.
Usage examples of "spicery".
And sodden full hastily, With powder and with spicery, And with saffron of good colour.
This fountain has a sweet savor, as of all manner of spicery, and every hour of the day the water changes its savor and its smell.
Of spicery and leaves, of bark and root, Shall be his sauce y-maked by delight, To make him have a newer appetite.
Southampton, who did set upon the Flanders merchant and rob him of his spicery and his mercery, for which, as we well know, you hold a warrant against us.
Mixture of Neats-tongues, Chicken, Eggs, Sugar, Raisins, Lemon and Orange Peel, various kinds of Spicery, etc.
The light was golden with the flesh of women, lavish as their limbs, true, depthless, tender as their glorious eyes, fine-spun and maddening as their hair, as unutterable with desire as their fragrant nests of spicery, their deep melon-heavy breasts.
Perhaps he had dealt in myrrh and spicery from Gilead, and, being honest and unworldly, had fallen amongst thieves himself, and lost all he had.
And when they are surfeited with spiceries and fish, they will fall upon you, tooth and nail, Master Goldsmith.
In this, there are many spiceries, and great mines of gold and other metals.
He had a high chamberlain and a vice-chamberlain, both attired in rich gowns, and provided with white staves, a dozen gentlemen ushers, likewise richly arrayed, six gentlemen waiters, three marshals, a chaplain, an almoner, a cofferer, a clerk of the kitchen and clerk of the spicery, a master cook and his assistants, besides a multitude of yeomen ushers, grooms, cup-bearers, carvers, and sewers.
And herewithal there was such a savour as all the spicery of the world had been there.
It was indeed I and the black cook, both from the ship `La Rose de Gloire,' of Southampton, who did set upon the Flanders merchant and rob him of his spicery and his mercery, for which, as we well know, you hold a warrant against us.