vergée
English
Etymology
From Norman vergée, from Anglo-Norman vergé, vergee, originally terre vergee (“measured land”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈvəːʒeɪ/
Noun
vergée (plural vergées)
- (Channel Islands) A measure of land, having varying values in Guernsey and Jersey, but approximately 18,000 square feet.
- 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 34:
- Her father had given her a cottage in the Robergerie with a vergée of land and a greenhouse.
- 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 34:
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vɛʁ.ʒe/
Further reading
- “vergée” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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