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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Acates in general; provisions purchased.
- noun The room or place allotted to the keeping of all such provision as the purveyors purchased for the king.
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missanthropist commented on the word acatery
Provisions purchased; also the room or place alloted to the keeping of all such provisions as the purveyors purchased for the king; relative to acater, A caterer, a purveyor.
James Halliwell, Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, 1855
May 20, 2008