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noun
The confining of animals in pens.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A fee paid for the accommodation of animals in pens.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
feathery covering; plumage
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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History
From pen + -age.
From penna + -age, from Latin penna, pinna (“wing, feather”). Perhaps analogous to French pennage, the same Latinate root and suffix elements having both entered at an earlier stage (cf. Middle English penne, -age).
