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From Ellis Peters's "Saint Peter's Fair" (page 12):
For three days, the three busiest of the year, when we might do well out of tolls on carts and pack-horses and man-loads passing through the town to reach the fair, we must levy no charges, neither murage nor pavage.
Murage -- a tax for repair of the town walls Pavage -- a tax for paving of streets
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Murage -- a tax for repair of the town walls
That's appropriate enough, mur being French for wall.
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demurrage n. 5OFr demorage, a delay < demorer: see DEMUR6 1 the compensation payable to a carrier of freight whose vehicle or vessel is delayed, as by failure to load or unload the freight within the time allowed 2 the delay itself
gavage n. 5Fr < gaver, to stuff: see GAVOTT Also using stomach tube to remove ingested poison, putting in water and removing it repeatedly
And then just plain lavage n. 5Fr < laver < L lavare, to wash: see LAVE16 Med. the washing out of an organ, as the stomach, intestinal tract, or sinuses Which reminds me of the newly wed young lady of fifty years ago, who said that between dishes and douches, she was in hot water all the time. And the proposed Lysol theme song," the Love Bug Will Get you If You Don't Wash Out."
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And adage and pottage and badinage and old age...
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And dotage and and and garage!
And garbage.
And cabbage.
And forage.
Oh, good grief. So many ages and so little time.
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Geesh! Gots ta dig deep enough.
I cheated and entered f*age
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murage and pavage I think it sounds like a legal firm...
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badinage, bavardage, circumbages, empennage, enallage, frottage(!), fullage, gavage, kumatage(?), moulage, persiflage, remplissage, selvage, ullage, vernissage, volage, vorlage and agelast
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mucilage? ah, Elmer...
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And bandage. (not worthless, but...sometimes the obvious is the most elusive) So, are worthless words 'tsuwmage'?
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bandage
bandage=Rolling Stones?
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bandage=Rolling Stones?Let me be the first to g-r-o-a-n for you, eta! (and, congratulations!...because you haven't "arrived" as an AWAD punster until you've contributed your first true Groaner!..well done!)
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gosh, thanks hey, I guess I Can Get Satisfaction! r. Grow-ner
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tsuwm:
I beat you to badinage, dagnabbit!
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hey, it were just a dump of all the 'ages' in my list--I was "too lazy" ;) to crosscheck.
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And Jackie posted "concubinage" a year ago.
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And Jackie posted "concubinage" a year ago.And that was when she was still wearin' that Gutter Police uniform! Daring at the time! (whatever happened to the GPs?...you can't find a good Gutter Cop when ya really need one, ya know? ;))
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...vernissage, volage, vorlage...
How did we miss Voltage?
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How did we miss Voltage?
didn't have the energy, I guess...
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outrage (is that French for "whèreness" ?)
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faux amis(is that French for "I love you, too"?)
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And how did a bunch of wordhounds miss this one?: verbiage (or, verbage) I always liked verbiage better.
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burgage -- land held in a mediaeval town by payment of an annual rent or in exchange for services related to a particular craft or trade.
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Enter: *age into Onelook.com search;
On the page that comes up with lots of words and phrases ending with 'age,' click on the search for common words.
The first of those pages that will come up includes the words below, but there are additional pages that follow:
1. abusage 2. accourage 3. acierage 4. acreage 5. adage 6. adjustage 7. adjutage 8. advantage 9. afterimage 10. age 11. agiotage 12. ajutage 13. alienage 14. alloyage 15. alnage 16. altarage 17. ambassage 18. amenage 19. amperage 20. anchorage 21. anecdotage 22. angelage 23. anlage 24. apanage 25. appanage 26. appenage 27. appendage 28. apprenticeage 29. arbitrage 30. arrearage 31. assemblage 32. assuage 33. asswage 34. avenage 35. average 36. backstage 37. bacteriophage 38. badinage 39. baggage 40. ballastage 41. bandage 42. barbacanage 43. baronage 44. baronetage 45. barrage 46. bavardage 47. beaconage 48. beguinage 49. berthage 50. beverage 51. billage 52. birdcage 53. blindage 54. blocage 55. blockage 56. boatage 57. bodrage 58. bondage 59. borage 60. bordage 61. boscage 62. boskage 63. bossage 64. bougienage 65. brage 66. brassage 67. breakage 68. brennage 69. brewage 70. bricolage 71. brigandage 72. brocage 73. brokage 74. brokerage 75. buoyage 76. burbage 77. burgage 78. bushelage 79. butlerage 80. cabbage 81. cabotage 82. cage 83. camouflage 84. carcelage 85. careenage 86. carnage 87. carriage 88. cartage 89. carthage 90. cartilage 91. carucage 92. cellarage 93. centage 94. cerclage 95. chaperonage 96. checkage 97. chevage 98. chiefage 99. chiminage 100. circumambage
Edit: These words are fascinating, of course, to us. Out of idle curiosity, I looked up adjutage from the list above and found it defined as a nozzle in one of the six online reference links Onelook provided.
Then I noticed the adju* words on that site's list:
adit opening or passage into a mine adjudge to decide; to award adjutage nozzle adjutor helper; assistant adjuvant substance added to make vaccine more effective
...could see no connection among the ju words, but was gratified to see the word adit just above the adju* words. I'd lost adit a while back and now I can permanently add it to my mining language. Oh, idle curiosity does pay off from mine to mine.
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there's some serious wordage out there, eh?
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I imagine that asswage is just a variant of assuage, but double gosh...
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I imagine that asswage is just a variant of assuage, but double gosh...
Course not. It's what you get paid in a job where all you do is sit on your duff!
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asswageWell, it could also mean pay in bordellos and on certain websites, but.
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I can see that I'm really not needed here.
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re:Well, it could also mean pay in bordellos and on certain websites, but.
and you get the change in clevage, eh, Juan?
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and you get the change in clevage, eh, Juan?cleavage...beavage...whatever...
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