In 7 also chaundelary. [prob. in part a. OF. chandel(l)erie, f. chandelier (cf. CHANDLER and -ERY); in part f. CHANDLER + -Y, as in bakery, etc.]
1. A place where candles, etc., are kept.
1601. F. Tate, Househ. Ord. Edw. II., § 73. The offices of the panetry, Butery … marshalsy, avenery, Chaundlery.
1667. E. Chamberlayne, St. Gt. Brit., I. II. xii. (1743), 109. The yeoman of the chandlery [is to bring] seared cloths.
1875. Stubbs, Const. Hist. (1877), III. xxi. 531. The several departments were organised under regular officers of the buttery, the kitchen, the napery, the chandlery and the like.
2. a. Candles and other lighting materials. b. The commodities sold by a retail provision-dealer (also in pl. chandleries). Also attrib.
1601. F. Tate, Househ. Ord. Edw. II., § 10. He shal survey … the liveres of Chaundelary that shalbe everi day in the warderobe.
1837. Dickens, Pickw., xxiii. To open a little shop in the chandlery way.
1842. Gen. P. Thompson, Exerc., VI. 424. A vendor of the unenumerable things called chandleries.
1886. Law Times Rep., LIII. 678/2. The outstanding debts of a chandlery business.
c. With defining word, as ship chandlery (the business and commodities of a ship-chandler).
1849. Freese, Comm. Class-bk., 16. Trade in Naval Stores and Ship Chandlery.
