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单词 spicery
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spiceryn.

/ˈspʌɪsəri/
Forms: Middle English–1600s spicerie (Middle English spiceri, Middle English spicere, 1500s spiceree), Middle English– spicery (Middle English spicerye); Middle English–1500s spycerie (Middle English spycirie, 1500s spycarie), spy(e)cery(e; Middle English spisorie, Middle English spysory(e, spiserie.
Etymology: < Old French espicerie (modern French épicerie ), < espice spice n. Compare Old French especerie (= Spanish especeria , Italian spezeria ) specery n., which is also the source of Middle Dutch spec-, speserie (Dutch specerij), Middle Low German specerie (spisserie), Middle High German specierie, spezerie (German spezerei).
1.
a. collective or in plural. Spices.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > spice > [noun]
pigment?a1200
aromac1220
spicea1250
spicery1297
specea1300
specerya1400
espice1483
savoura1500
sorts1530
speciesa1649
Arabia1693
singular.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 3162 He..Nom wiþ him spicerie þat to fysike drou.
c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. I. 89 For Goddis lawe savouriþ wele whan it is defoulid, as spicerye ȝyveþ smell whan it is powned.
a1400 Sir Beues 3188 Wiþ pyment and wiþ spisorie.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur xi. ii. 573 There with alle there was suche a sauour as alle the spyecery of the world had ben there.
a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 42 Fore pore menne þys crafte is tolde Þat mowon not have spysory, as þay wolde.
1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Hi Wher francke incence is soulde, And what soeuer spycerie In waste paper is roulde.
1593 E. Spenser Elegie in Phœnix Nest 2 The Phœnix..Built vp hir tombe of spicerie.
1652 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Bentivoglio Hist. Relations Flanders 14 Having brought by many Voyages an inestimable Treasure of Spicery into Holland.
1689 Bp. G. Burnet Tracts I. 96 It tasted high of Spicery, though she assured me there was not one grain of Spice in it.
1776 W. J. Mickle tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad 464 The richest gust of spicery's fragrant fire.
1819 G. Crabbe Tales of Hall II. xxi. 305 And the good ladies whom at church he saw..Could..whispering, deal for spicery and lace.
1847 H. Miller First Impressions Eng. v. 75 Several glasses of Sampson,— a palatable Dudley beverage, compounded of eggs, milk and spicery.
1867 W. Morris Life & Death of Jason xii. 216 While on the veined pavement lie The honied things and spicery.
plural.c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) vii. 26 Sum distilles gariofles, spikenarde, and oþer spiceries.a1527 R. Thorne in R. Hakluyt Divers Voy. (1582) sig. C2v Manie Ilandes, which be Ilandes of the spiceries of the Emperour.1591 H. Savile Annot. vpon Tacitus 2 in tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. Windowes & doores..wherein the herse was placed, and all kinde of spiceries and odours..heaped therein.1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 71 There is a mighty heape of the said spiceries gotten together.1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 552 All sorts of Trees, wilde Beasts, and Spiceries.1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. i. (1778) I. 34 He traded in many of the islands from which Europe had long received spiceries and other commodities.1850 H. Miller Scenes & Legends N. Scotl. (ed. 2) xvii. 258 He supplied the proprietors with teas, wines, and spiceries.1893 A. H. Sayce Higher Crit. (1894) 133 Dedan was the leading tribe..which carried the spiceries of the southern coast to the populations of Palestine.
b. figurative in various applications.
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1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. ix. 100 (Trin. Coll. Cambr.) And siththe to spille speche That spicerie [v.r. spyre] is of grace.
1576 G. Gascoigne Steele Glas Ep. Ded., in Wks. (1910) II. 135 Were not the cordial of these two pretious Spiceries, the corrosyve of care woulde quickely confounde me.
1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. E3v Arabian spiceries of sweete passions and praises.
1652 E. Benlowes Theophila iv. xcvii. 69 All Virtues fir'd in her pure Breast their Spicerie.
1679 J. Goodman Penitent Pardoned (1713) i. iv. 123 The name of the wicked shall rot, in despite of all the spicery of flatterers and parasites.
1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. I. 340/2 After his hot and stimulating spicery, we now are running to..sager poets.
a1881 Ripley in Frothingham Rec. & Impr. 266 The affluence of his [Emerson's] illustrations diffuses a flavor of oriental spicery over his pages.
2.
a. A spice-shop or spice-store, or a set of these; a source or supply of spices. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop selling provisions > other provision shops
spicery1297
coffee shop1663
oil-shop1679
tea-shopa1745
sweet-shop1879
farm shop1924
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 11224 Þe bowiares ssoppe hii breke,..& suþþe þe spicerie Hii breke fram ende to oþer, & dude al to robberie.
a1527 R. Thorne in R. Hakluyt Divers Voy. (1582) sig. C2v A head lande called Malacha, where is the principall spicerie.
b. The department of the royal household connected with the keeping of spices; esp. in Clerk of the Spicery. Now historical.
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the world > food and drink > food > place for storing food > [noun] > for spices
spicery1418
1418–9 in Cal. Proc. Chancery Queen Elizabeth (1827) I. Introd. 16 Roger Wodehill,..som tyme clerc of ȝoure faders Spicerie.
1508 Bk. Keruynge (de Worde) sig. A.ivv Speke with the panter and offycers of the spycery for fruytes that shall be eten fastynge.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lviii The kyng sent William Blacknall esquyer, Clerck of hys Spycery with siluer vessell, plate and other thynges.
1601 F. Tate Househ. Ord. Edward II (1876) §11. 11 Al thinges touching th' office of the spicerie.
1601 F. Tate Househ. Ord. Edward II (1876) §17. 14 Two towels of the clarke of the spicery.
1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 63 They..divested him of his place in the spicery.
1707 J. Chamberlayne Present State Great Brit. (1710) 535 Her Majesty's Houshold Officers and Servants... Spicery: Richard D'Avenant, Esq., Clerk.
1780 E. Burke Corr. (1844) II. 327 I propose..to abolish..all the offices of the kitchen, cellar, spicery, &c.
c. A room or part of a house set apart for the keeping of spices. Now historical.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > storage room
closet1532
spicery1536
bottle housea1637
housemaid's closet1819
housemaid's pantry1848
1536 MS Rawl. D. 780 f. 57 b A new key for the stew howse Dore in the spycery.
1600 R. Armin Foole vpon Foole sig. B2v The Pye was drawne,..but wanting Suger, stept a side to the spicery to fatch it.
1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 148 The Spicery, the Cellar and its Furniture..are too well known to need a Description.
1883 Eng. Illustr. Mag. Nov. 81 Kitchens, cellars, pastries, spiceries,..and the like.
figurative.1638 R. Brathwait (title) A Spiritual Spicerie, containing sundrie sweet Tractates of Devotion and Piety.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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