murage

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/ˈmjʊəɹɪd͡ʒ/

noun

A tax paid for building or repairing the walls of a fortified town.

OriginMiddle English murage ← Middle French murage ← Latin murus →
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Meanings

nounmurage (countable and uncountable, plural murages)

plural murages

  1. countableuncountableA tax paid for building or repairing the walls of a fortified town.

    They pay no Toll for Goods which they have in Right of the Church, and were formerly by the common Law discharg'd from Pontage and Murage

    1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani: Or, A Commentary, by Way of Supplement to the Canons and Constitutions of the Church of England. […], London: […] D. Leach, and sold by John Walthoe […], →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latinmurus
  2. Middle Frenchmurage
  3. Middle Englishmurage
  4. Englishmurage

Inherited from Middle English murage, from Anglo-Norman and Middle French murage, from murer (“to wall”), from mur (“wall”), Latin murus. See mure (“wall”).

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APA

murage. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/murage

MLA

“murage.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/murage. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “murage,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/murage.

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