chandry

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  1. A place where candles are kept. One of the said groomes of the privy chamber to carry to the chaundrie all the remaine of morters, torches, quarries, pricketts, wholly and intirely, withoute imbesseling or purloyning any parte thereof. Quoted in Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), Index. Torches from the chandry. B. Jonson, Masque of Augurs.

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  1. Early modern English chaundry, chaundrie; contr. of chandlery. Cf. chancery for *chancelry.
 

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