chummagen.
/ˈtʃʌmɪdʒ/ 1. The system of ‘chumming’ one person upon another; the quartering of two or more persons in one room. Hence chummage-ticket.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > [noun] > rooms > together
chumship1835
chummage1837
chumming1838
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xli. 447 You'll have a chummage ticket upon twenty-seven in the third, and them as is in the room will be your chums.
1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 103 The time-honoured system of ‘chummage’, or quartering two or more collegians in one room, and allowing the richest to pay his companions a stipulated sum to go out and find quarters elsewhere.
2. The fee demanded of a ‘new chum’ (Prison slang), or that paid as described in quot. 1859 at sense 1.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > [noun] > entrance fee > for joining society, guild, or group
Hanse1200
ingress1607
footing1692
livery fine1701
garnish1759
chummage1777
1777 J. Howard State Prisons Eng. & Wales 16 A cruel custom obtains in most of our gaols, which is that of the prisoners demanding of a new comer, garnish, footing, or (as it is called in some of the London gaols) chummage.
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xli. 449 The regular chummage is two-and-sixpence.
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