| 释义 |
vergée|ˈvɛːrʒeɪ|
[Anglo-Norman, f. F. terre vergée measured land.]
In the Channel Islands, a superficial measure of land, varying between Jersey and Guernsey (see quot. 1971).
In quot. 1915, in Flanders.
1834H. D. Inglis Channel Islands I. ix. 180 Rent in the neighbourhood of St. Helier is as high as from {pstlg}3 to {pstlg}4 per vergée... Two vergées and one quarter, make an English acre. 1858F. F. Dally Channel Islands v. iv. 235 The Guernsey vergée is forty perches, and two vergées and a half are rather more than the English acre. 1915Contemp. Rev. July 107, 400 vergées (about one acre and a half), were kept under cultivation. 1971Nat. Geogr. Mag. May 722/2, I do 50 vergées of potatoes a year... The vergée, an old Norman measure, is still the legal land unit of the Channel Islands. On Jersey, two-and-a-quarter vergées make one English acre, but Guernsey disagrees, and counts two-and-a-half to the acre. 1977Jersey Even. Post 26 July 11/2 The IDC would like to transfer 13/4 vergées of land at the corner of Rouge Bouillon and Roussel Street. |