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vergée

vergée

English

Noun

vergée ‎(plural vergées)

  1. (Channel Islands) A measure of land, having varying values in Guernsey and Jersey.
    • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 34:
      Her father had given her a cottage in the Robergerie with a vergée of land and a greenhouse.

French

Etymology

From Latin virgata.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɛʁ.ʒe/

Noun

vergée f ‎(plural vergées)

  1. rood (quarter of an acre)

Verb

vergée f

  1. feminine singular of the past participle of verger

Norman

Noun

vergée f ‎(plural vergées)

  1. (Guernsey, Jersey) vergée

Etymology

From Norman vergée, from Anglo-Norman vergé, vergee, originally terre vergee ‎(“measured land”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈvəːʒeɪ/

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