chandleryn.
/ˈtʃɑːndləri/, /ˈtʃandləri/, U.S. /ˈtʃæn(d)ləri/ 1. A place where candles, etc., are kept.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [noun] > place where candles are made or stored
wax-chandlery1398
chandry1478
chandlery1601
tallow-chandlery1846
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > storage room > where candles are kept
chandry1478
chandlery1601
1601 F. Tate Househ. Ord. Edward II (1876) §73 The offices of the panetry, Butery..marshalsy, avenery, Chaundlery.
1667 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1743) i. ii. xii. 109 The yeoman of the chandlery [is to bring] seared cloths.
1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (1877) III. xxi. 531 The several departments were organised under regular officers of the buttery, the kitchen, the napery, the chandlery, etc.
2.
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a. Candles and other lighting materials.
b. The commodities sold by a retail provision-dealer (also in plural chandleries). Also attributive.
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society > trade and finance > merchandise > article(s) to be sold > [noun] > goods sold by a chandler
chandry1650
chandlery1836
1601 F. Tate Househ. Ord. Edward II (1876) §10 He shal survey..the liveres of Chaundelary that shalbe everi day in the warderobe.
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xxiii. 241 To open a little shop in the chandlery way.
1842 T. P. Thompson Exercises VI. 424 A vendor of the unenumerable things called chandleries.
1886 Law Times' Rep. 53 678/2 The outstanding debts of a chandlery business.
c. With defining word, as ship chandlery (the business and commodities of a ship-chandler).
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1849 J. H. Freese Commerc. Class-bk. 16 Trade in Naval Stores and Ship Chandlery.
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