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Metage vs Menage - What's the difference?

metage | menage |

As nouns the difference between metage and menage

is that metage is measurement, especially of coal while menage is condiment set (found on dining tables).

metage

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Measurement, especially of coal.
    • (De Foe)
  • A fee paid for a measurement.
    • (Simmonds)
  • * 1858', City of London (England) Corporation, ''The Title of the Corporation of London to Its '''Metage Revenues , page 4,
    • The corporation of London'' acquired its metage''' rights from the crown before the time of legal memory, and now holds them by the best of titles, ''prescriptive right'' and ''immemorial possession''; for, except in those memorable periods in English history, the reigns of King ''John'', King ''James'' the First, King ''Charles'' the Second, and King ''James'' the Second, the right and title of the corporation to its ' metage due has never been questioned or disturbed.
    (Webster 1913)

    menage

    English

    Alternative forms

    * menage

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A household; a domestic situation.
  • * 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 39:
    • It smelled of ether and something else, possibly laudanum. I had never tried the mixture but it seemed to go pretty well with the Geiger ménage .
  • A group of people living together in a sexual relationship.
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