Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Money paid for keeping the walls of a town in repair.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A tax or toll paid for building or repairing the walls of a fortified town.
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- noun A
tax paid forbuilding orrepairing thewalls of afortified town .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Generous benefactors, like Sir Richard Whittington, frequently contributed to the cost, and sometimes a tax called murage was levied for the purpose which was collected by officers named muragers.
Vanishing England 1892
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For three days, the three busiest of the year, when we might do well out of tolls on carts and pack-horses and man-loads passing through the town to reach the fair, we must levy no charges, neither murage nor pavage.
St. Peter's Fair Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981
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For three days, the three busiest of the year, when we might do well out of tolls on carts and pack-horses and man-loads passing through the town to reach the fair, we must levy no charges, neither murage nor pavage.
St. Peter's Fair Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981
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By fineounce and imposts I got and grew and by grossscruple gat I grown outreaches — ly: murage and lestage were my mains for Ouerlord’s tithing and my drains for render and prender the doles and the tribute:
Finnegans Wake 2006
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"All we ask is that you will hold back a tithe of the dues you pay to the abbey, and pay them instead to the town for murage and pavage.
St. Peter's Fair Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981
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"All we ask is that you will hold back a tithe of the dues you pay to the abbey, and pay them instead to the town for murage and pavage.
St. Peter's Fair Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981
chained_bear commented on the word murage
In feudalism, a tax levied by boroughs to pay for the building of town walls.
August 25, 2008
fbharjo commented on the word murage
Is there no defence (sic)! Or is it a mirage
January 29, 2010
qms commented on the word murage
The pirates taxed beyond endurage
They taxed for sailing and for moorage
And charged every boat
In that city afloat
Ridiculous fees for the murage.
July 3, 2017