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aulnage

aulnage is the alternative form of alnage.

Meaning of alnage

Noun

alnage (plural alnages)

  1. (historical) Measurement (of cloth) by the ell, specifically, official inspection and measurement of woollen cloth, and attestation of its value by the affixing of a lead seal, as was once required by British law.
    • Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time,
      Tiering the same dull webs of discontent,
      Clipping the same sad alnage of the years.1896, Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Clerks
  2. (historical) A duty paid for such measurement.

Forms of aulnage

pluralaulnages

Questions about aulnage

What is aulnage the alternative form of?
Aulnage is the alternative form of alnage.

Words near aulnage in the dictionary

  1. aulics
  2. Aulis
  3. Aull
  4. Aulls
  5. auln
  6. aulnage
  7. aulnager
  8. aulnagers
  9. aulnages
  10. Aulnoye-Aymeries
  11. aulns

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Adapted from Wiktionary: aulnage (page history and authors); alnage (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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