haveage
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]haveage (countable and uncountable, plural haveages)
- (archaic) Lineage; family background.
- 1914 November, Arthur Quiller-Couch, “Nicky-Nan, Reservist”, in Blackwood's Magazine, volume 196, number 1189, page 677:
- In neighbourliness, then, and for the sake of his haveage, Nicky Nan's first welcome home had been kindly enough.
- 1916, Ashton Hilliers, “Demi-Royal”, in The Living Age, volume 291, page 213:
- As to her haveage I am as ignorant as yourselves.
- 2022, Arthur Quiller-Couch, News from the Duchy:
- Nor could he tell me anything when I questioned him concerning his haveage; which I did upon report that he was courting my housemaiden Grace Pascoe, an honest good girl, whom I was loth to see waste herself upon an unworthy husband.