hospitage
English
Etymology
From Latin hospitagium, for Latin hospitium. See hospice.
Noun
hospitage (countable and uncountable, plural hospitages)
- (obsolete) hospitality (lodging or putting someone up)
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- That his ungentle hoste n'ote
him appeach
Of vile ungentlenesse or hospitages breach
References
- “hospitage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.