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THAT night the Company slept at St. Leonard's, in the great monastic barns and spicarium -- ground well known both to Alleyne and to John, for they were almost within sight of the Abbey of Beaulieu.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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THAT night the Company slept at St. Leonard's, in the great monastic barns and spicarium -- ground well known both to Alleyne and to John, for they were almost within sight of the Abbey of Beaulieu.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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That night the Company slept at St. Leonard's, in the great monastic barns and spicarium -- ground well known both to Alleyne and to John, for they were almost within sight of the Abbey of Beaulieu.
The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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THAT night the Company slept at St. Leonard's, in the great monastic barns and spicarium -- ground well known both to Alleyne and to John, for they were almost within sight of the Abbey of Beaulieu.
The White Company 1890
chained_bear commented on the word spicarium
"The sixth-century laws of the Franks, Visigoths, and Alamanni all mention a spicarium, a warehouse where high-value goods were stored. By this route the word entered the ferment of Late Latin and Germanic dialects that in turn evolved into today's Romance languages. Hence, in short, the terminology that persists into the third millennium, at root unchanged since late antiquity: Spanish especia, Portuguese especiaria, French épice, Italian spezia."
--Jack Turner, _Spice: The History of a Temptation_ (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), 87
December 2, 2016