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noun
A merchant guild, particularly the Fellowship of London Merchants (the "Old Hanse") given a monopoly on London's foreign trade by the Normans or its successor, the Company of Merchant Adventurers (the "New Hanse"), incorporated in 1497 and chartered under Henry VII and Elizabeth I.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
The rights and privileges of such guilds, particularly their trade monopolies.
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Usage: historical
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A commercial association of Scottish free burghs in the Middle Ages.
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Usage: historical
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noun
The Hanseatic League: a commercial association of German towns in the Middle Ages.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
Alternative form of hanse, the fees payable to a Hanse or its guildhall.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, historical
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Alternative form of Hanse, a merchant guild or a former commercial league of German cities.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, historical
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noun
The guildhall of a Hanse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
A fee payable to the Hanse, particularly its entrance fee and the impost levied on non-members trading in its area.
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Usage: historical
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noun
That part of an elliptical or many-centred arch which has the shorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: architecture
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History
From Middle English hanse, from Old French hanse (“guild; guild fee”), from Medieval Latin hansa, from Old High German hansa, from Proto-West Germanic *hansu, from Proto-Germanic *hansō (“gathering; coalition; gang of men”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱómsōd (“union; gathering”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, by, with, along”) + *sed- (“to sit”). In reference to the Hanseatic League, via German Hanse. Cognate with Old English hōs (“company, retinue, escorts”),
See Hanse.
Compare French anse (“handle”), anse de panier (“surbased arch, flat arch, vault”), and English haunch (“hip”).
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