| 单词 | window money |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswindow money ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > property tax > window tax window yield1347 window-light1655 window tax1696 window money1700 1700 O. Heywood Diary 3 Sept. in Autobiogr., Diaries, Anecd. & Event Bks. (1885) IV. 228 Naylor Hopkin came for window-mony, 5sh. 1717 Enq. State Union of Great Brit. 268 The Window-Mony, which has been introduced subsequent and in place of the old Chimney or Hearth Mony. 1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy I. xxiii. 165 If the fixure of Momus's glass, in the human breast..had taken place,..This foolish consequence would certainly have followed,—That the very wisest..of us all..must have paid window-money every day of our lives. 1845 W. Baggaly Juggernaut Popery 7 Had Sir Robert Peel been there, he would have seen why such people do not pay window money in Ireland. < as lemmas |
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