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stallage en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) The erection and use of a stall at a fair or market.
2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) The 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. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) dung of cattle or horses, mixed with straw

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