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Pantry. (French, paneteric (2 syl.)

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Latin, panarium, from panis, bread.) An archaic form is “panary.” The keeper of a pantry was at one time called a “panterer.” (French, panterer.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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