frérèche
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain. Possibly a corruption of Old French frere + -age with accenting added by scholars in, perhaps, the 16th century to inform proper pronunciation.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]frérèche m (plural frérèches)
- A social convention involving the joint ownership of a feudal estate by a group of brothers in a family.
Further reading
[edit]Jack Goody, The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983); David Herlihy, Medieval Households (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985).