fumage
English edit
Etymology edit
From Old French fumage, fumaige, from Latin fumus (“smoke”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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 edit
hearth tax
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References edit
- “fumage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fumage m (plural fumages)
- smoking (of food etc)
Further reading edit
- “fumage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.