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Possibly from the French adjective louage (“hiring”) (Oxford English Dictionary), or a corruption of levage (Calvert, 1978).
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Today it means: A charge on shipping. Full definition →
Possibly from the French adjective louage (“hiring”) (Oxford English Dictionary), or a corruption of levage (Calvert, 1978).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.