putage
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Middle French putage.
Noun
editputage (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Prostitution or fornication by a woman.
Synonyms
editPart or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “putage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Old French
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editNoun
editputage oblique singular, m (oblique plural putages, nominative singular putages, nominative plural putage)
- debauchery (immoral sexual behavior)