Middle English Dictionary Entry
stallāǧe n.
Entry Info
| Forms | stallāǧe n. Also stalage; pl. stalage. |
| Etymology | OF estalage, estallage, AF stallage & ML stallagium. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. taillage n.
1.
(a) A fee charged for the right to use a vending stall at a market or fair; also, the right to sell goods at a vending stall [1st quot.]; ?also, a vending stall [quot.: 1435]; (b) a platform or stage.
Associated quotations
a
- a1275 Legal Gloss.Rothley128 : Stallage: Hoc est acquietancia ad standum in mercatis et nundinis super terram aliorum.
- a1315 Legal Gloss.Glb.(Glb E.4)211 : Stallage: Custume de places loez en feire ou en marche.
- c1410(a1387) Legal Gloss.Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)97 : Stalage, custom for stondynge in stretes in feyre tyme.
- (1435) Doc.in Rec.B.Nottingham 2359 : Ye Fleshusse in ye Setterday Markeht has xvj bayes, yat is xxxij stalage, and ilk stalle payis be ȝere to ye Comons, iiij s. xj d.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)665/10 : They shold be quyte þurgh all Ingelond..fro..pountage and stallage and lastage and of all other customs.
- ?a1475 Legal Gloss.Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)97 : Stallage: an exaccion for stondenge in the hie weies in tyme of feires.
b
- c1500 Melusine (Roy 18.B.2)54/30 : Thenne the spouse & many other ladyes were sett vpon the scaffold, or stalage.