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corkage

noun
/ˈkɔːkɪdʒ/UK/ˈkɔɹkɪd͡ʒ/US

Etymology

From cork + -age.

  1. derived from alcorque — “cork sole”
  2. derived from corcho — “cork (material or object)”
  3. derived from curc — “cork (material or object)”
  4. inherited from cork — “oak bark, cork”
  5. suffixed as corkage — “cork + age”

Definitions

  1. A fee charged by a restaurant to serve wine that a diner has provided.

    • While the Black-nebs wanted only the tea and sugar cheap, and a drap brandy at a reasonable rate, I was hand in glove wi' them; and ga'e them ben the house to meet in, free o' a charge—save the natural corkage.
    • Five of their favorite destinations are included below and, although their wines lists are pedestrian, modest corkages are the rule.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for corkage. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA