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A form of messuage — Originally, a plot of land as the site for a dwelling house and its appurtenant interests; now, a dwelling house or residential building together with its outbuildings and assigned land.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of messuage

    I proceeded, therefore, to roam hither and thither about the grounds and messuages in the hope of locating her [...]

    1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter III
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