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pewage|ˈpjuːɪdʒ|
Also puage.
[f. pew n.1 + -age.]
The arrangement or provision of pews; rent paid for a pew or pews.
1684J. Wade in Nichols Coll. Top. & Gen. (1836) III. 317 For pewage, Sr Lionel Jenkin {pstlg}1 5 0. 1836Nichols ibid. 316 The presents or gratuities which he received in addition to the ‘pewage money’. 1841G. Poulson Hist. Holderness II. 288 The former pewage was very ancient; two pews bore the inscription 1590. 1842Ecclesiologist Nov. 62 The puage of all these churches is exceeding bad. 1866Guardian 27 Dec. 1327/1 The incumbent..objecting..that the services might damage his income, arising almost entirely from ‘pewage’. |