Plural of chandlery; multiple shops selling candles, groceries, or ships' supplies.
From chandlery (a store run by a chandler) + -ies (plural marker replacing -y).
In colonial port cities, chandleries were the supply shops that kept ships functional—rope, tar, candles, salt meat—and the word reflects the crucial infrastructure of maritime trade that most landlubbers never think about.
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