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murage

/ˈmjʊəɹɪd͡ʒ/

murage noun: a tax paid for building or repairing the walls of a fortified town.

Noun

murage (countable and uncountable, plural murages)

  1. A tax paid for building or repairing the walls of a fortified town.
    • They pay no Toll for Goods which they have in Right of the Church, and were formerly by the common Law discharg'd from Pontage and Murage1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani: Or, A Commentary, by Way of Supplement to the Canons and Constitutions of the Church of England. […], London: […] D. Leach, and sold by John...

Forms of murage

pluralmurages

Origin of murage

Inherited from Middle English murage, from Anglo-Norman and Middle French murage, from murer (“to wall”), from mur (“wall”), Latin murus. See mure (“wall”).

Questions about murage

What does murage mean?
Murage means a tax paid for building or repairing the walls of a fortified town.
What part of speech is murage?
Murage is a noun.
How do you pronounce murage?
Murage is pronounced /ˈmjʊəɹɪd͡ʒ/.
What is the plural of murage?
The plural of murage is murages.

Words near murage in the dictionary

  1. muraenids
  2. muraenoid
  3. muraenoids
  4. muraenolepidid
  5. muraenolepidids
  6. murage
  7. murages
  8. muraglitazar
  9. muraina grass
  10. Murakami
  11. Murakamian

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