different between parage vs oarage

English

Etymology

From Middle English parage, from Old French parage, perage, from pair (“equal”) + -age. Doublet of peerage.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pa??d?/

Noun

parage (uncountable)

1. (archaic) Lineage, parentage; rank, especially as high or noble.
2. A feudal institution that recognizes equality of rights and status between two rulers, and equality in the portions of an inheritance.
3. A woman's marriage portion or dowry.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.?a?/

Noun

parage m (plural parages)

1. parage (social rank)
2. (plural only) environs, surroundings

Further reading

• “parage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Alternative forms

• parag, perage, porache

Etymology

From Old French parage; equivalent to pere (“peer”) +? -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?ra?d?(?)/

Noun

parage (uncountable)

1. One's bloodline or ancestry, especially in terms of relative social status.
2. A great or noble bloodline; an ancestry of high social status.
3. (rare) Common social status or position; societal equalness.
4. (rare) The right to hold land due to one's societal equivalence to other tenants.
5. (rare) Esteem, significance.

Related terms

• disparage
• disparagen

Descendants

• English: parage

References

• “par??e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-21.

Old French

Alternative forms

• paraige (Conon de Béthune)

Noun

parage m (oblique plural parages, nominative singular parages, nominative plural parage)

1. parage (social rank)

Descendants

• Middle English: parage, parag, perage, porache
  • English: parage
• French: parage

See also

• eritage
• linage

English

Etymology

oar +? -age

Noun

oarage (uncountable)

1. (archaic) The act of using oars; rowing.
   • 1900, William Stearns Davis, A Friend of Cæsar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic, Grosset & Dunlap Publishers (1900):

     The yacht was flying down the current under her powerful oarage.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:oarage.
2. (archaic, poetic) A sweeping motion that resembles rowing.
   • 1927, C. E. Montague, Right off the Map, Doubleday, Page & Co. (1927), page 184:

     […] the oarage of the wings of a single great bird, flying high over the valley on some lonely night quest of its own, was distinct.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:oarage.
3. Equipment used for rowing.
   • 1993, H. T. Wallinga, Ships and Sea-Power Before the Great Persian War: The Ancestry of the Ancient Trireme, E. J. Brill (1993), ?ISBN, page 49:

     With two banks of 13 and 12, or more probably 14 and 11, oars a side the oarage of the pentekontar took up 11.7 m or 12.6 m of its length […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:oarage.

Anagrams

• agorae