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cellarage

cellarage noun: the space or storerooms of a cellar.

Noun

cellarage (countable and uncountable, plural cellarages)

  1. The space or storerooms of a cellar.
    • Ha, ha, boy, say’st thou so? Art thou there, truepenny? Come on! You hear this fellow in the cellarage. Consent to swear.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
    • The emphasis was helped by the speaker’s square wall of a forehead, which had his eyebrows for its base, while his eyes found commodious cellarage in two dark caves, overshadowed by the wall.1854, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC
  2. A fee charged for storing goods in a cellar.

Forms of cellarage

pluralcellarages

Origin of cellarage

From cellar + -age. In the fee sense, apparently after either Middle French celerage, celeraige, cellerage, sceleraige or Latin celērāgium, cellārāgium.

Questions about cellarage

What does cellarage mean?
Cellarage means the space or storerooms of a cellar.
What part of speech is cellarage?
Cellarage is a noun.
What is the plural of cellarage?
The plural of cellarage is cellarages.

Words near cellarage in the dictionary

  1. cellar spider
  2. cellar spiders
  3. cellar-door
  4. cellar-doors
  5. cellarable
  6. cellarage
  7. cellarages
  8. cellared
  9. cellarer
  10. cellarers
  11. cellaress

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