Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In law, equality of name, blood, or dignity, but more especially of land in a division among heirs.
- noun The portion which a woman may obtain on her marriage.
- noun Birth; family; kindred; descent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Old Eng. Law) Equality of condition, blood, or dignity; also, equality in the partition of an inheritance.
- noun (Feudal Law) Equality of condition between persons holding unequal portions of a fee.
- noun obsolete Kindred; family; birth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete except historical
Lineage ,parentage ;rank , especially as high or noble. - noun A
feudal institution that recognizesequality of rights andstatus between two rulers, and equality in the portions of aninheritance .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Billionaires for Bush crowd is the latest "parage" (parody/homage) to hit YouTube in the wake of Will. i.am's hugely popular "Yes, We Can."
Videracy, and the Latest Riff on "Yes We Can": "No You Can't" Sifry, Micah L. 2008
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Billionaires for Bush crowd is the latest "parage" (parody/homage) to hit YouTube in the wake of Will. i.am's hugely popular "Yes, We Can."
Videracy, and the Latest Riff on "Yes We Can": "No You Can't" 2008
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Fie, fie, said she, Sir knight, ye are uncourteous to set a kitchen page afore me; him beseemeth better to stick a swine than to sit afore a damosel of high parage.
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As long as the _parage_ continued, the share of a deceased _parager_ would be dealt with by redivision of rights, and no question would arise of finding heirs.
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(M60) In the _Coustumes du Pais de Normandie_ mention is made of such a method of land-holding, called _parage_.
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Fie, fie, said she, Sir knight, ye are uncourteous to set a kitchen page afore me; him beseemeth better to stick a swine than to sit afore a damosel of high parage.
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Although the name "Chaucer" is (according to Thynne), to be found on the lists of Battle Abbey, this no more proves that the poet himself came of "high parage," than the reverse is to be concluded from the nature of his coat-of-arms, which Speght thought must have been taken out of the 27th and 28th
Chaucer Adolphus William Ward 1880
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See! Their Roos, Snakes and Crocs are civilised ..... they can even allow them to parage around the streets!
PCLinuxOS-Forums 2009
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See! Their Roos, Snakes and Crocs are civilised ..... they can even allow them to parage around the streets!
PCLinuxOS-Forums 2009
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At laft Captain Swan and his furgeon going in a fmall canoe aboard of a Dutch ihip, then in the road, in order fb get parage to Europe, were overfet by the natives at the mouth of the river; who waited their coming purpofelv to do it, but unfufpeded by them; where they were both killed in the water.
knitandpurl commented on the word parage
"The Count lauded the men of Avignon for the way they had welcomed him, and promised them "the high esteem of all Christendom and of your own country; for you are bringing back chivalry, and Joy, and Parage.""
Arriving in Avignon by Daniël Robberechts, translated by Paul Vincent, p 65 of the Dalkey Archive Press paperback
December 22, 2010