mercery

Definitions

Examples

• It stands at the end of Mercery Lane, a lofty building with towers at its corners, and two storeys above the archway.

• An old maid at Vernon had sent her to one of her relatives who in this arcade kept a mercery shop which she desired to get rid of.

• The latter have a great many shops of mercery, haberdashery, and millinery.

• This yere was a strife betwene yong men of the Mercery and Lumbardes.

• Lydgate, in his ballad, describes the mercers' and haberdashers' stalls as side by side in the mercery in Chepe.