Imagery

google

ref

Middle English (in the senses ‘statuary, carved images collectively’): from Old French imagerie, from imager ‘make an image’, from image (see image).

wiktionary

ref

From Middle English ymagerie, from Middle French imagerie; equivalent to image +‎ -ry.

etymonline

ref

imagery (n.)

mid-14c., "piece of sculpture, carved figures," from Old French imagerie "figure" (13c.), from image "likeness, figure, drawing, portrait" (see image (n.)). Rhetorical meaning "ornate description, exhibition of images to the mind" (in poetry, etc.) is from 1580s.