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ˈboard-ˈwages, board wages
Wages allowed to servants to keep themselves in victual.
1539Househ. Ord. (1790) 211 Bills of allowance..for Wages and Boardwages. 1557Order of Hospitals Fvj. 1692Southerne Wives Exc. i. i. Dram. Wks. (1721) 270 Starve under the tyranny of a Housekeeper, and never know the comfort of boardwages again. 1695Congreve Love for L. i. i. 12 If you please, I had rather be at Board-wages. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 46 They are on board wages. |