butlerage
butlerage noun: a duty formerly paid to the king's butler on every ton of wine imported into England by foreign merchants.
Noun
butlerage (countable and uncountable, plural butlerages)
- A duty formerly paid to the king's butler on every ton of wine imported into England by foreign merchants.
- There is also another very antient hereditary duty belonging to the crown, called the prisage or butlerage of wines; which is considerably older than the customs, being taken notice of in the great roll of the exchequer, 8 Ric. I. still extant. Prisage was a right of taking two tons of wine from...1771, William, Sir Blackstone, “Of the King's Revenue”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, volume 1, pages 314–315
butlerage meaning in Tamil
butlerage in Tamil
- அகப்பணித்துறை
Forms of butlerage
| plural | butlerages |
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Origin of butlerage
From butler + -age.
Questions about butlerage
- What does butlerage mean?
- Butlerage means a duty formerly paid to the king's butler on every ton of wine imported into England by foreign merchants.
- What is butlerage in Tamil?
- Butlerage in Tamil is அகப்பணித்துறை. See Butlerage meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is butlerage?
- Butlerage is a noun.
- What is the plural of butlerage?
- The plural of butlerage is butlerages.
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