Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In heraldry the doubling or turning over of a mantle or mantlet, or of the ribbon on which the motto is written. In the former sense also called
doubling . - noun Same as
faldage .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (O.Eng.Law.) See
faldage .
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- noun Alternative form of
faldage .
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Examples
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All rights of pasture, shack, and foldage were to be extinguished on all lands in the village.
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Wymondham impleads William de Calthorp for interfering with his foldage at Burnham; Calthorp replying that the Prior had no right to foldage, and that he (Calthorp) had the right to pull the fold down.
The Coming of the Friars Augustus Jessopp 1868
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Bunwell, Berryhall, in Eltingham, a manor in Bichamwell, and Cawston's manor in Cornard Parva, with the lands, commonages, and foldage aforesaid.
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
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