parquisite

plural parquisites

1. obsoleteObsolete form of perquisite.

   Parquiſites or caſualties of Courtes, belonging to a Mannour.

   1588, Valentine Leigh, The Moste Profitable and Commendable Science, of Surueying of Landes, Tenementes, and Hereditamentes: […], […] John Windet, for Andrewe Maunsell, […]

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   The ſquire gave away an ould coat to a poor man; and John ſays as how tis robbing him of his parquiſites.—I told him, by his agreement he was to receive no vails; but he ſays as how there’s a difference betwixt vails and parquiſites; and ſo there is for ſartain.

   1771, [Tobias Smollett], “To Mrs. Mary Jones, at Brambleton-hall”, in The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, volume I, Dublin: […] A. Leathley, J. Exshaw, H. Saunders, […], page 14

   So he is, but what does M‘Quirk value an oath?—he says himself he has a right to charge full price for a man, and if he gets one to work for less, ’tis his lawful parquisite.

   1830, Martin Doyle [pseudonym; William Hickey], “Death of Peter Dempsey, deputy supervisor of roads—His Funeral—Conversations at it—Scene at the burial place”, in Irish Cottagers, Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Co. […], Hurst, Chance and Co. London, and Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, page 66

   O, nothing, miss, only poor servants cannot expect to have their missess’s confidence as they would common parquisites, and so their missesses can’t expect to reciprocate in theirs.

   1837, [Charles White], “Showing the way in which I imitated peeping Tom of Coventry—[…].”, in The Married Unmarried, volume III, London: Saunders and Otley, […], page 233