spicehouse
nounEtymology
From spice + house.
- inherited from husen
- derived from *(s)kews-✻
- inherited from *hūs✻
- inherited from hous
Definitions
A warehouse where spices are stored.
- Down here in the waterfront area we have a very unique market, simply because you have the fish on the waterfront, you have groceries, fruit, you have produce, you have spicehouses, you have pickling-houses, for example.
- They showed her the spicehouses, where plants and trees from lands lost long ago were kept bathed in continual heat: they showed her the harvest of nuts and berries and fruits and sugars such as Inland had never dreamed of.
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA