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  • noun Plural form of messuage.

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Examples

  • My list is pretty much like yours, Glenda, except I do know "messuages" and don't know "truite bleu".

    Language Glenda Larke 2008

  • I just typed "messuages definition" and got the answer OK.

    Language Glenda Larke 2008

  • Baghdad, who left me great store of gold and silver and pearls and coral and rubies and chrysolites and other jewels, besides messuages and lands, Hammam-baths and brickeries, orchards and flower-gardens.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Nothing replaces the published dictionary and thesaurus as far as I am concerned. e.g., the online dictionary.com - which is pretty good because it searches a number of different dictionaries - cannot find the word messuages.

    Language Glenda Larke 2008

  • Pekoe with milk and whisky, who does messuages and has more dirt on him than an old dog has fleas, kicking stones and knocking snow off walls.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • A disincarnated spirit, called Sebastion, from the Rivera in Januero, (he is not all hear) may fernspreak shortly with messuages from my dead-ported.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Steve Lopez can journey through the Second street tunnel to the "BONEAVENTURE" to do a feature on those messuages that Edwards, Contreas, and others were enjoying.

    Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Wednesday 2006

  • "There are within the town some thirty or more messuages in your hold, and your tenants within them, and their children have to wade in the kennels of broken streets as ours do, and their horses break legs where the paving is shattered, as ours do."

    St. Peter's Fair Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

  • "There are within the town some thirty or more messuages in your hold, and your tenants within them, and their children have to wade in the kennels of broken streets as ours do, and their horses break legs where the paving is shattered, as ours do."

    St. Peter's Fair Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

  • Church of the same, and all the manors, parsonages, messuages, lands, tithes, advowsons, and hereditaments, late part of the possession of the said Hospital with certain specified exceptions which the charity had to lose, and no longer form part of its history.

    Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less George Worley

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