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English
Etymology
From cellar + -age.
Noun
cellarage (countable and uncountable, plural cellarages)
- The space or storerooms of a cellar.
c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Ha, ha, boy, say’st thou so? Art thou there, truepenny? Come on! You hear this fellow in the cellarage. Consent to swear.
1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, chapter 6, in The Woodlanders , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:Among the excluding matters there was, for one, the effect upon Mr. Melbury of the womanly mien and manners of his daughter, which took him so much unawares that, though it did not make him absolutely forget the existence of her conductor homeward, thrust Giles’s image back into quite the obscurest cellarage of his brain.
1956, Aldous Huxley, Heaven and Hell, London: Chatto & Windus, Appendix III:In the masques of Elizabethan and early Stuart times, divine descents and irruptions of demons from the cellarage were a commonplace […]
- A fee charged for storing goods in a cellar.
Translations
space or storerooms of a cellar
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