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escuages

escuages is the plural of escuage.

Meaning of escuage

Noun

escuage (countable and uncountable, plural escuages)

  1. (Middle-Ages, historical) Payment to a lord in lieu of military service.
    • […] subsidies were not to be granted, nor levied in this case ; that is, for wars of Scotland : for that the law had provided another course, by service of escuage, for those journeys […]1622, Francis Bacon, Bacon's History of the Reign of King Henry VII, Cambridge University Press, published 1902, page 148

Questions about escuages

What is escuages the plural of?
Escuages is the plural of escuage.

Words near escuages in the dictionary

  1. escrows
  2. escrupulo
  3. escrupulos
  4. ESCs
  5. escuage
  6. escuages
  7. escucheon
  8. escucheons
  9. Escudero
  10. Escuderos
  11. escudo

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