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butlerages

butlerages is the plural of butlerage.

Meaning of butlerage

Noun

butlerage (countable and uncountable, plural butlerages)

  1. (archaic, historical) 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

Questions about butlerages

What is butlerages the plural of?
Butlerages is the plural of butlerage.

Words near butlerages in the dictionary

  1. butler's sink
  2. butler's sinks
  3. butler's steak
  4. butler's steaks
  5. butlerage
  6. butlerages
  7. butlerdom
  8. butlered
  9. butleress
  10. butleresses
  11. Butlerian

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