coshering
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun In Ireland, an old feudal custom whereby the lord of the soil was entitled to lodge and feast himself and his followers at a tenant's house.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- noun A feudal prerogative of the lord of the soil entitling him to lodging and food at his tenant's house.
Examples
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Sometimes he contrived, in defiance of the law, to live by coshering, that is to say, by quartering himself on the old tenants of his family, who, wretched as was their own condition, could not refuse a portion of their pittance to one whom they still regarded as their rightful lord.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2
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Some are still _coshering_ here and there among their charitable neighbors, while many are bitter hearted exiles across the sea.
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It was considered as an incident annexed to their tenure, that the socage vassals of the crown, and so of all the subordinate barons, should receive their lord and all his followers, and supply them in their progresses and journeys, which custom continued for some ages after in Ireland, under the name of _coshering_.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12)
Note
The word 'coshering' comes from an Irish word meaning 'feast'.
