stallage

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noun

The erection and use of a stall at a fair or market.

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Meanings

nounstallage (countable and uncountable, plural stallages)

plural stallages

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableThe erection and use of a stall at a fair or market.
  2. countableobsoleteuncountableThe dues levied for the erection and use of a stall at a fair or market.

    Stallage and the like payments are made in respect of some user of the soil beyond the mere entry into the market; for no one has a right to erect a stall or appropriate part of the market place as a standing without making a satisfaction for it to the owner of the soil […]

    1899, Joseph Gerald Pease, Herbert Chitty, A treatise on the law of markets and fairs with the principal statutes relating thereto, Knight and Co., page 63
  3. countableobsoleteuncountabledung of cattle or horses, mixed with straw

Origin

From stall + -age? Compare Old French estallange, of German origin.

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