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A tax toward paving streets
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pavage
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a tax toward paving streets the act of applying paving materials to an area [syn: paving ]
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Pavage \Pav"age\, n. [Cf. F. pavage.] See Pavage . [R.]
Wiktionary
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n. (alternative form of paviage English)
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Pavage was a medieval toll for the maintenance or improvement of a road or street in England . The king by letters patent granted the right to collect it to an individual, or the corporation of a town, or to the "bailiffs and good men" of a neighbouring ...
Usage examples of pavage.
For three days, the three busiest of the year, when we might do well out of tolls on carts and pack-horses and man-loads passing through the town to reach the fair, we must levy no charges, neither murage nor pavage.