Obs. Forms: 5–7 chandery, chaundrie, -y, 6–7 chandrie, -dry. [Contracted from chandlery, like chancery from chancelerie.]
1. The place where candles, etc., were kept in a household; = CHANDLERY 1.
1478. Liber Niger, in Pegge, Cur. Misc., 74. To pantry, buttery, or cellar, spicery, chaundry, or any other office.
1541. Act 33 Hen. VIII., c. 12 § 12. The yoman of the chaundrie … shall … haue in redinesse seared clothes, sufficient for the surgeon.
1668. Collins, in Rigaud, Corr. Sci. Men (1841), II. 178. One of the yeomen of the chaundry to the king.
1884. Leisure Hour, 301/2. The chaundeler … also moulded quarions and morters in the chaundry.
2. Chandlery, small wares.
1650. Davenant, Pref. to Gondibert, 63. Imitating the Holiday-custome in great Cittys, where the shops of Chaundry, and slight wares, are familiarly open, but those of solid and staple merchandise are proudly locked vp.
3. The feast of Candlemas.
1478. Liber Niger, in Pegge, Cur. Misc., 100. Two servants … to bear the trumpets, pipes and other instruments … whilst they blow to suppers and other revels at Chaundry.
