A public marketplace where silk merchants would expose their merchandise in order to be charged with the duties they owed to the Moorish monarchs.; Any marketplace, especially for silk.
“Hay a vender muchas maneras de filado de algodón, de todos colores, en sus madejitas, que parece propiamente alcaicería de Granada en las sedas, aunque esto otro es mucha más cantidad.”
Synonyms: mercado
Etymology tree Arabic اَل (al-) Arabic قَيْصَر (qayṣar) Arabic ـِيّة (-iyya) Andalusian Arabic القَيْصَرِيَّة (alqayṣaríyya)bor. Spanish alcaicería From Andalusian Arabic القَيْصَرِيَّة (alqayṣaríyya), from Arabic اَلـ (al-, “the”) + قَيْصَر (qayṣar, “Caesar; emperor”) + ـِيّة (-iyya, noun-forming relational suffix), after the fact that such places were built by imperial decree. Cognate with Portuguese alcaçaria.