sperage

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈspɛɹɪdʒ/

Noun

sperage (countable and uncountable, plural sperages)

Obsolete form of asparagus.
- 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas], “(please specify the page)”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC:
  Sperage and the Rush

References

sperage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

asperge, preages, presage

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