EQUERY, or ECURY, a grand stable or lodge for horses, furnished with all the conveniences thereof; as stalls, manger, rack, &c. The word is formed from the French escurie, which signifies the same thing. Some again derive escurie from the Latin scuria, which not only denotes a place for beasts to be put up in, but also a grange or barn. But a more probable derivation is from equile, "a stable for horses," of equus, "horse." Some hold that the word stable, in propriety, relates only to bullocks, cows, sheep, hogs, &c. and equery, to horses, mules, &c.
A simple equery is that provided for one row of horses; a double equery that provided for two, with a passage in the middle, or two passages; the horses being placed head to head, as in the little equery at Versailles.
Under equery are sometimes also comprehended the lodgings and apartments of the equerries, grooms, pages, &c.