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chandlery|ˈtʃɑːndlərɪ, -æ-|
In 7 also chaundelary.
[prob. in part a. OF. chandel(l)erie, f. chandelier (cf. chandler and -ery); in part f. chandler + -y, as in bakery, etc.]
1. A place where candles, etc., are kept.
1601F. Tate Househ. Ord. Edw. II, §73 The offices of the panetry, Butery..marshalsy, avenery, Chaundlery. 1667E. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. i. ii. xii. (1743) 109 The yeoman of the chandlery [is to bring] seared cloths. 1875Stubbs Const. Hist. (1877) III. xxi. 531 The several departments were organised under regular officers of the buttery, the kitchen, the napery, the chandlery, etc.
2. a. Candles and other lighting materials. b. The commodities sold by a retail provision-dealer (also in pl. chandleries). Also attrib.
1601F. Tate Househ. Ord. Edw. II, §10 He shal survey..the liveres of Chaundelary that shalbe everi day in the warderobe. 1837Dickens Pickw. xxiii, To open a little shop in the chandlery way. 1842Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. VI. 424 A vendor of the unenumerable things called chandleries. 1886Law Times' Rep. LIII. 678/2 The outstanding debts of a chandlery business.
c. With defining word, as ship chandlery (the business and commodities of a ship-chandler).
1849Freese Comm. Class-bk. 16 Trade in Naval Stores and Ship Chandlery. |