merchet

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Etymology

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Welsh merched, plural form of merch (“daughter”).

Noun

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merchet (plural merchets)

  1. (obsolete) In Middle Ages England, a fine paid to a lord on a daughter's marriage, in recompense for the loss of a worker.
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