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trewage

trewage is the alternative form of truage.

Meaning of truage

Noun

truage (countable and uncountable, plural truages)

  1. (obsolete) Tribute, as paid to a ruler or superior.
  2. (obsolete) A pledge of truth or peace made on payment of a tax.
    • For when he hath wonne a countrey, towne, or sygnory, he desyreth nothynge but truage […]1523-1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles

Forms of trewage

pluraltrewages

Questions about trewage

What is trewage the alternative form of?
Trewage is the alternative form of truage.

Words near trewage in the dictionary

  1. Trevose
  2. Trevose Head
  3. Trevour
  4. trevs
  5. trew
  6. trewage
  7. trewages
  8. Trewartha
  9. Treweek
  10. Treweeks
  11. Trewern

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trewage (page history and authors); truage (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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