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English
Noun
haveage (countable and uncountable, plural haveages)
- (archaic) Lineage; family background.
1914 November, Arthur Quiller-Couch, “Nicky-Nan, Reservist”, in Blackwood's Magazine, volume 196, number 1189, page 677:In neighbourliness, then, and for the sake of his haveage, Nicky Nan's first welcome home had been kindly enough.
1916, Ashton Hilliers, “Demi-Royal”, in The Living Age, volume 291, page 213:As to her haveage I am as ignorant as yourselves.
2022, Arthur Quiller-Couch, News from the Duchy:Nor could he tell me anything when I questioned him concerning his haveage; which I did upon report that he was courting my housemaiden Grace Pascoe, an honest good girl, whom I was loth to see waste herself upon an unworthy husband.
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