different between pedage vs pelage

English

Etymology

From Latin pedagium, for pedaticum.

Noun

pedage (countable and uncountable, plural pedages)

1. (obsolete) A toll or tax paid by passengers travelling through a specific place, entitling them to safe conduct and protection.

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   • 1784, Francis Grose, The Antiquities of England and Wales, Volume 6, page 99,

     He^{[Richard III]} also excused them from danegeld, aids, scutage, or a tax of 40/s. payable out of every knight's fee; pontage, or a toll for the reparation of bridges; pedage, or money collected from foot passengers for passing through a forest or county; carriage, tolls for repairing of castles or cleaning of fosses; stallage, or a fee paid for erecting stalls in a fair or market; and talliage, or taxes in general; forbidding every man from arresting any person within their premisses, without license from the abbott and convent.

   • 1814, John Britton (editor), The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury, page 26,

     This charter specifies that "New Saresbury" shall be for ever a free city, enclosed with ditches, or trenches; that the citizens shall be quit throughout the land of toll, pontage, passage, pedage, lastage, stallage, carriage, and all other customs; […] .

   • 1819, "Pedage", entry in Abraham Rees (editor), The Cyclopædia: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature, Volume 26, unnumbered page,

     Pedage is u?ually levied for the repairing of roads, bridges, and cau?eways, the paving of ?treets, &c. Anciently, tho?e who had the right of pedage were to keep the roads ?ecure, and an?wer for all robberies committed on the pa??engers between ?un and ?un; […] .

English

Etymology

From French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?l?d??/

Noun

pelage (plural pelages)

1. fur, or any other form of the coat of a mammal

Anagrams

• Lapège, Lepage, peagle

French

Etymology

From poil +? -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?.la?/

Noun

pelage m (plural pelages)

1. fur

Synonyms

• (fur): fourrure

See also

• toison

Further reading

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

Latin

Noun

pelag?

1. nominative plural of pelagus
2. accusative plural of pelagus
3. vocative plural of pelagus

References

• pelage in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pelage in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette