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单词 mercery
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merceryn.

Brit. /ˈməːs(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈmərsəri/
Forms: Middle English marcerye, Middle English meercery, Middle English merceri, Middle English merceyre, Middle English mersorie, Middle English–1500s mercerie, Middle English–1500s mercerye, Middle English–1500s mersery, Middle English–1500s merssery, Middle English– mercery, 1600s merciarie; Scottish pre-1700 mercery, pre-1700 mercrie, pre-1700 mersarie, pre-1700 mersere, pre-1700 mersery, pre-1700 mersory, pre-1700 mirsory.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mercerie.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French mercerie (late 13th cent.; compare Old French (Walloon and Picardy) mercherie (late 12th cent.)) < merz commodity (see mercer n.) + -erie -ery suffix, after mercier mercer n. Compare Old Occitan mersaria (12th cent.; late 14th cent. as merceria ), Catalan merceria (13th or 14th cent.), Spanish mercería (13th cent.; < Old Occitan or Catalan), Italian merceria (14th cent. in sense 1 in form merciaria , 1565 in sense 3), post-classical Latin merceria (from 12th cent. in British sources, 13th cent. in continental sources).In sense 3 there are isolated examples of mercerie in Old French and Middle French (from the 13th and 15th centuries respectively), but this sense is rare before the 20th cent.
Now rare.
1. As a mass noun: the goods sold by a mercer; esp. fine textile fabrics.Formerly (occasionally) in plural in the same sense.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > types of textile goods
merceryc1300
mercery ware1377
haberdasha1529
small ware1567
tailory1610
dry goods1657
woollen-drapery1688
soft goods1798
wallflower1804
linendrapery1849
hog round1910
c1300 St. Gregory (Laud) 20 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 356 He founde Marchauns at rome with Mercerie [a1325 Corpus Cambr. merceri] wel hiende.
c1390 (c1300) MS Vernon Homilies in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1877) 57 314 He..bad him take ten pound and buye Marchaundise and Mercerye.
a1400 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 158 Þai..dele with dyuers marcerye, right as þai pedlers were.
a1450–1500 ( Libel Eng. Policy (1926) 522 Wee bene ageyne charged wyth mercerye, Haburdasshere ware, and wyth grocerye.
1468 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 23 Item of all mersery or merchandice..to costome it be the crowne [ij d.].
1542 Galway Arch. in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 410 The said merchantes..ys bounde to bringe the same merssery and packes to the costome housse.
1594 T. Blundeville Exercises v. ii. f. 250 Bombasine, Fustian, Suile, Armour, all sortes of workes made of Iron, or brasse, and other merceries.
1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 128 He made a Prize of some Mercery and Millenary Goods.
1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 309 Tradesmen..in cloth, mercery, and linnen.
1841 S. Warren Ten Thousand a-Year I. viii. 242 She had once accompanied her sister-in-law..to purchase some small matter of mercery.
1875 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. June 681 Shame on such wooers' dapper mercery!
1928 H. L. Stuart tr. J. Green Closed Garden ii. iv. 256 Stalls loaded with vegetables and mercery.
1998 Oxfordshire Local Hist. 5 18 He was clandestinely carrying around in his pockets items of hosiery and mercery in order to hawk them to members of the colleges.
2. (the) Mercery: the Worshipful Company of Mercers (a livery company of the City of London). Hence also: the trade in mercery; the part of a city where this trade is carried out. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > trading place > a centre of commerce > [noun] > commercial centre in town or city > specific
(the) Mercery1387
steelyard1474
city1621
society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [noun] > livery company > specific company
(the) Mercery1387
society > trade and finance > specific types of trade > [noun] > trade in specific textiles
frippery1599
woolage1611
mercership1647
(the) Mercery1662
rag trade1745
hosiery1789
grey market1825
narrow-trade1827
costumer1830
linendrapery1849
wool-stapling1888
broad trade-
1387–8 Petition London Mercers in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 34 (MED) The folk of the Mercerye of London.
1425 Ordinances Whittington's Alms-house (modernized text) in J. Entick New Hist. London (1766) IV. 354 Maisters..of the Mercery.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 333 Meercery, place or strete where mercerys syllen here ware.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. ccvi This was done by thassent of the Masters & housholders of the Mercerye.
1651 J. Saint-Amard tr. F. Micanzio Life Father Paul sig. F At the signe of the cocke, in the Mercery.
1662 J. Graunt Nat. & Polit. Observ. Bills Mortality ix. 56 The Mercery is gone from out of Lombard-street..into Pater-Noster-Row.
3. A mercer's shop. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shops selling clothes, cloth, or accessories
glovery1483
small storesa1643
woollen-drapery1688
slop-shop1723
mercery1773
Manchester warehouse1788
shoe-store1789
haberdashery1813
shoe-shop1824
clothing store1829
mourning house1849
mourning warehousec1860
bootery1920
1773 F. Grose Antiq. Eng. & Wales I. Pref. 17 King Edward the Third, at the siege of Calais..built a kind of city of timber about the place besieged... It had..merceries, shambles and cloth-warehouses.
1879 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 21 July 5/6 I stand before the mighty mercery of Shoolbred.
1893 Bulletin (Sydney) 25 Mar. 13/1 The clothes are fearfully and wonderfully made, the fashions of 30 years ago, raked out of Fosselman's mercery, at Wantabadgery.

Compounds

General attributive.
mercery ware n. Obsolete
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > types of textile goods
merceryc1300
mercery ware1377
haberdasha1529
small ware1567
tailory1610
dry goods1657
woollen-drapery1688
soft goods1798
wallflower1804
linendrapery1849
hog round1910
1377 Westm. Chapter Munim. No. 28073 (MED) Obligatio Civium Londinensium pro Mercerywere.
1429 Rolls of Parl. IV. 352/1 Mercery ware.
1542 Galway Arch. in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 410 If any..merchantes bringith with them merssery warres and packes.
1671 tr. A. Charant Let. conc. Countrys King of Tafiletta 43 in tr. R. Fréjus Relation Voy. Mauritania Merchants trade thither..with..Mercery-ware.
1761 C. Lennox Trifler in Lady's Museum No. 11. 797 There's..numbers of Megareans that get a fine livelihood by mercery ware.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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