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English
Etymology
From Latin faldagium, from Old English fald (whence English fold). Compare foldage.
Noun
faldage (countable and uncountable, plural faldages)
- (law, Norfolk, Suffolk, obsolete) A privilege of setting up, and moving about, folds for sheep, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them; often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor.
1868, Charles Isaac Elton, A Treatise on Commons and Wastelands:It was decided , in a case where the lord of a manor had liberty of faldage and a fold-course for 300 sheep over certain closes within the manor, that the lessee of these rights could not feed his own sheep over these closes
- (law, obsolete) A fee paid for exemption from this.