单词 | fumage |
释义 | fumagen.1 Historical. Hearth-money. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > property tax > hearth or chimney tax focage1499 feuage1523 smoke-pence1584 smoke-penny1631 hearth money1662 smoke-money1662 chimney-money1664 smoke-silver1664 hearth tax1689 fumage1755 chimney-tax1855 1755 in S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. vii. 323 As early as the conquest mention is made in domesday book of fumage or fuage, vulgarly called smoke farthings; which were paid by custom to the king for every chimney in the house. 1884 S. Dowell Hist. Taxation in Eng. I. i. ii. 12 A fumage, or tax of smoke farthings, or hearth tax..ranges among those of the Anglo-Saxon period. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2019). † fumagen.2 Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. (See quot. 1725.) ΚΠ 1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Fumage, [manuring with] dung. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique Fumage, a Term in Agriculture signifying Dung, or manuring with Dung. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.11755n.21676 |
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