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English
Noun
demorage (countable and uncountable, plural demorages)
- Obsolete form of demurrage.
1663 November 17 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “November 7th, 1663”, in Henry B Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys , volume III, London: George Bell & Sons ; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC:This day, Captain Taylor brought me a piece of plate, a little small state dish, he expecting that I should get him some allowance for demorage of his ship William, kept long at Tangier, which I shall, and may justly do.
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