merchet

English edit

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merchet

Etymology edit

Welsh merched, plural form of merch (“daughter”).

Noun edit

merchet (plural merchets)

(obsolete) In Middle Ages England, a fine paid to a lord on a daughter's marriage, in recompense for the loss of a worker.

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