brokage
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of brokage
1350–1400; Middle English < Anglo-French brocage; see broker, -age
Example Sentences
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Remember, sirrah, the dinners and suppers, fat venison and good words, I was fain to give you, christening your children still by the way of brokage.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert
They could neither possess property, nor engage in manufactures, nor cultivate the soil: they lived by botching and brokage.
From The Roman Question by About, Edmond
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