messuage
1
9.9
A house with the small buildings and land that belong to it
- noun
- /ˈmɛs.ju.ɪdʒ/
- Archaic
:
casa
- The old messuage had beautiful gardens and several outbuildings for the horses.
Examples
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The real estate listing described the messuage as a spacious home with an attached stable and large yard.
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After years of restoration, the historic messuage is once again a proud part of the community.
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P58 Crippling punishment, censure—so much seems our messuage since what has been destined for superiority comes dressed in misreport.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
house
vsmessuage
∞
1.0
A building where one family lives
specifies the building plus its outbuildings and assigned land
dwelling house
vsmessuage
1
2.8
A house or building where people live, not a business building
includes that residence together with its outbuildings and assigned land
Surface Forms
Etymology
Messuage comes from an old French word for 'household' and from the Latin mansio, linked to manere meaning 'to remain'. Think of the familiar word mansion from the same root, so a messuage is a dwelling house with its outbuildings and the land used with it.