In 7 consergerie, -ery. [F. conciergerie. f. prec.: see -ERY.]
1. Applied in French to the office of a concierge (in sense 1), the residence or lodge of a concierge, and used as name of a prison belonging to the Palace of Justice in Paris; in some of which senses it is occasional in Eng. as an alien word.
1610. Harl. Misc. (Malh.), III. 110. He [Ravaillac] was brought out of the consergery, being the prison for the palace.
1628. trans. Mathieu’s Powerfvll Fav., 138. The Conciergery [transl. 1632 gaole], the Court where they pleaded, the Treasury … were built neere together.
1852. Todd, Cycl. Anat., IV. 1465/2. Amblyopia in connection with presbyopia so common in the Conciergeries of Paris.
† 2. Name of the Scotch Merchants’ House at Campvere in Zeeland. Obs.
1613. Injunctions Comm. of Burghs, in Northern N. & Q., I. 73. Neill Kae, Maister of the Consergerie hous of Campheir. Ibid., 74. The said Master of the Consergerie sall intertinne the merchants of the best sort of the nation.
