merchet

English

Etymology

From Welsh merched, plural form of merch (“daughter”).

Noun

merchet (plural merchets)

  1. (obsolete) In Middle Ages England, a fine paid to a lord on a daughter's marriage, in recompense for the loss of a worker.
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