escuage

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Payment to a lord in lieu of military service. Middle-Ages,countable,historical,uncountable
    — […] subsidies were not to be granted, nor levied in this case ; that is, for wars of Scotland : for that the law had provided another course, by service of escuage, for those journeys […]

词形变化

escuages plural

词源

Inherited from Middle English scuage, from Old French escuage; in Modern English, remodelled on the Old French etymon.
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