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‖ métayage|metɛjaʒ|
[Fr., irreg. f. métayer: see next.]
A system of land tenure in Western Europe and also in the United States, in which the farmer pays a certain proportion (generally half) of the produce to the owner (as rent), the owner generally furnishing the stock and seed or a part thereof. Also attrib. in métayage system.
1877D. M. Wallace Russia xxi. 336 They..farmed part of their land on the métayage system. Ibid. xxxi. 519 The third solution was the system commonly known as métayage. 1898Nat. Rev. Aug. 907 The system of ‘métayage’ is not used in Southern Italy. |