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語源

From Middle English aulnage, from Old French alnage, aulnage (modern French aunage), from alne (“ell”), of Germanic origin: compare Old High German elina, Gothic ������������ (aleina, “cubit”). See ell.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔːlnɪd͡ʒ/

名詞

alnage (複数形 alnages)

1. Measurement (of cloth) by the ell.
   • 1896, Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Clerks:

     Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time,
     Tiering the same dull webs of discontent,
     Clipping the same sad alnage of the years.

2. A duty paid for such measurement.