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
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Part 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 fumage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
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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