Cellary vs Cellars - What's the difference?
cellary | cellars |
Characteristic of a cellar; musty, gloomy, etc.
* 1864 , New York State Agricultural Society, Proceedings of the annual meeting: Volume 23 (page 449)
* 1880 , Marion Harland, Loiterings in pleasant paths
As an adjective cellary
is characteristic of a cellar; musty, gloomy, etc.As a noun cellars is
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Cellars, where the direct rays of the sun cannot enter, are often used as milk rooms, but there is always a cellary odor in them which impairs the flavor of the butter.
- There is a cellary smell in all these old stone churches where slumber the mighty dead, suggestive of must, mould, and cockroaches, and on the hottest day a chill, like that of an ice-house.