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English
Etymology
From stall + -age? Compare Old French estallange, of German origin.
Noun
stallage (countable and uncountable, plural stallages)
- (obsolete) The erection and use of a stall at a fair or market.
- (obsolete) The dues levied for the erection and use of a stall at a fair or market.
1899, Joseph Gerald Pease, Herbert Chitty, A treatise on the law of markets and fairs with the principal statutes relating thereto, Knight and Co., page 63:Stallage and the like payments are made in respect of some user of the soil beyond the mere entry into the market; for no one has a right to erect a stall or appropriate part of the market place as a standing without making a satisfaction for it to the owner of the soil […]
- (obsolete) dung of cattle or horses, mixed with straw
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