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mercery|ˈmɜːsərɪ|
Forms: 3–6 mercerie, 4–5 mercerye, (4 marcerye, 5 merceyre, meercery, 5–6 mers(s)ery), 5– mercery.
[a. F. mercerie (from 13th c.), f. mercier mercer. Cf. Sp. mercería, Pg., It. merceria.]
1. collect. sing. (rarely pl.) The wares sold by a mercer.
c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 356/20 He founde Marchauns at rome with Mercerie wel hiende. 13..Metr. Hom. (Vernon MS.) in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. LVII. 313 He..bad him take ten pound and buye Marchaundise and Mercerye. 1382Pol. Poems (Rolls) I. 264 Thai..dele with dyvers marcerye, right as thai pedlers were. 1436Libel Eng. Policy in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 179 Wee bene ageyne charged wyth mercerye, Haburdasshere ware, and wyth grocerye. 1468Burgh Recs. Edinb. (1869) I. 23 Item of all mersery or merchandice..to costome it be the crowne [ij d.]. 1542Galway Arch. in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 410 The said merchantes..ys bounde to bringe the same merssery and packes to the costome housse. 1594Blundevil Exerc. v. ii. (1597) 256 b, Bombazine, Fustian, Suile, Armour, all sorts of workes made of Iron, or brasse, and other merceries. 1766Entick London IV. 309 Tradesmen..in cloth, mercery, and linnen. 1839–41S. Warren Ten Thous. a Year viii. I. 242 She had once accompanied her sister-in-law..to purchase some small matter of mercery.
†2. the Mercery: the Mercers' Company. Also, the trade in mercery-ware; the part of a city where this is carried on. Obs.
1386Rolls of Parlt. III. 225/1 The folk of the Mercerye of London. 1425in Entick London (1766) IV. 354 Maisters..of the Mercery. c1440Promp. Parv. 333/1 Meercery, place or strete where mercerys syllen here ware. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 630 This was done by thassent of the masters and housholders of the mercerye. 1518Colet in Lupton Life Colet (1887) 281 A Cofer of Iren gevyn of me to the mercery standing in theyr hall. 1651Life Father Sarpi (1676) 34 At the Sign of the Cock, in the Mercery. 1662J. Graunt Observ. Bills of Mortality ix. §12. 56 Canning-street, and Watlin-street have lost their Trade of Woollen-Drapery to Paul's Church-Yard..; the Mercery is gone from out of Lombard-street..into Pater-Noster-Row.
3. A mercer's shop.
1879Sala in Daily Tel. 21 July, I stand before the mighty mercery of Shoolbred.
4. attrib., as mercery-ware.
1429Rolls of Parlt. IV. 352/1 Mercery ware. 1542Galway Arch. in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 410 If any..merchantes bringith with them merssery warres and packes. 1671Charente Let. Customs 43 Merchants trade thither..with..Mercery-ware. 1712Arbuthnot John Bull i. ii, Next day he would be dealing in mercery-ware. |