Brewer's: Pantry

(French, paneteric (2 syl.). Latin, panarium, from pams, bread.) An archiac form is “panary.” The keeper of a pantry was at one time called a “panterer.” (French, panterer.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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