alms-fee
nounEtymology
From Old English ælmesfeoh, from ælmesse (“alms”) + feoh (“money”). See fee.
- inherited from ælmesfeoh
Definitions
An annual tax of one penny on every hearth, collected in England and Ireland and sent to…
An annual tax of one penny on every hearth, collected in England and Ireland and sent to Rome, from the beginning of the tenth century until it was abolished by Henry VIII.
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