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English
Etymology
From acate + -ry.
Noun
acatry
- (historical) A room or place used to store provisions purchased for the king.
1999, Mary Hill Cole, The Portable Queen: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Ceremony, page 44:A look at the monthly provisions for the queen's table from only two departments, the acatry and the poultry, suggests that the courts arrival must have depopulated the wildlife in surrounding counties to supply it.
References
- James Orchard Halliwell (1846) “ACATRY”, in A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. In Two Volumes, volumes I (A–I), London: John Russell Smith, , →OCLC, page 13, column 1.