spicerie
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Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French espicerie; equivalent to spicer + -ie or spice + -erie.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
spicerie (plural spiceries)
- A spice or spices; ground substances used as flavouring:
- Spices used for their scents, aromas, or smells.
- Spices used for their (purported) medical effects.
- Spices used for the embalmment dead bodies.
- Spices considered as a trade good.
- A branch of a wealthy estate ensuring the provision or victualling of food.
- A delicious or tasty food or meal.
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “spīcerī(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-24.
Categories:
- Middle English terms borrowed from Old French
- Middle English terms derived from Old French
- Middle English terms suffixed with -ie
- Middle English terms suffixed with -erie
- Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns
- enm:Burial
- enm:Foods
- enm:Household
- enm:Medicine
- enm:Smell
- enm:Spices
- enm:Trading