guardenage
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Equivalent to guardian + -age.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]guardenage
- (obsolete, rare) guardianship
- 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
- his tuition and guardenage
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Pepys to this entry?)
References
[edit]- “guardenage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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