Read full poem →Household ; one of the Lords Commis- /
sioners of the Treasury. Bribe-master-
general.
Dictionary Entry
A place where valuable things, like money or important documents, are stored and kept safe.
In a Sentence
“The museum's treasury held ancient gold coins and jewels.”
Origin
From Old French 'tresorier', meaning treasurer, ultimately from Latin 'thesaurus' meaning treasure or storehouse.
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Poetry examples for “treasury”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →1873 ; Notes and Queries^ passim J Mr. Palgrave's
Golden Treasury ; Dr. Macdonald's England's
Antiphon ; Miss Mitford's Recollections of a
Read full poem →son ; then a singing boy at Westminster ;
afterwards Secretary to the Treasury,
where he got ^5,000 ; now Clerk of the
Read full poem →Yet, as Mr. Palgrave says in the " Golden
Treasury," " perhaps no poem in this collection
is more delicately fancied, more exquisitely
Read full poem →And prodigal gifts bestowed on Gaveston,*
Have drawn thy treasury dry, and made thee weak;
The murmuring commons, overstretched, br^ak.
Read full poem →Than these, my lord; nor let me have more wealth
335 Than I may fetch from this rich treasury —
how a kiss revives poor Isabel!
Read full poem →Than these, my lord ; nor let me have more wealth
Than I may fetch from this rich treasury. 331
~ O how a kiss revives poor Isabel !
Read full poem →CLAUSE7. No money shall be drawn from the treasury
but in consequence of appropriations made by law: and a
Read full poem →Did you ever hear of Editor Whedon
Giving to the public treasury any of the money he received
For supporting candidates for office?