fumage
English
Etymology
From Old French fumage, fumaige, from Latin fumus (“smoke”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfjuːmɪd͡ʒ/
Noun
fumage (uncountable)
- (historical) hearth tax
- 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
- As early as the conquest mention is made in domesday book of fumage or fuage, vulgarly called smoke farthings; which were paid by custom to the king for every chimney in the house
Translations
hearth tax
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References
- “fumage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fy.maʒ/
Audio (file)
Further reading
- “fumage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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