purparty

English

Alternative forms

• pourparty, purpart

Etymology

From Old French porpartie, from por (“for”) and partie (“a part”). Compare Old French purpart (“a respective part”).

Noun

purparty (plural purparties)

1. (law) A share, part, or portion of an estate allotted to a coparcener.
   • 1793 October 6, Horace Walpole, letter to “the Miss Berrys” (sisters Mary and Agnes Berry),^[1]

     I am forced to eat all the game of your purparties, as well as my own thirds.

References

• “purparty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.