Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tax on chimneys; hearth-money. Also
fuage .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Hearth money.
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- noun
hearth tax
Etymologies
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Examples
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Another of Sir William Petty's helps in the arithmetic of population was the Chimney Tax, a revival of the old fumage or hearth-money -- smoke farthings, as the people called them -- once paid, according to
Essays on Mankind and Political Arithmetic William Petty 1655
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[Although fumage or smoke money was as old as the Conquest, the first parliamentary levy of hearth or chimney money was by statute
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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[Although fumage or smoke money was as old as the Conquest, the first parliamentary levy of hearth or chimney money was by statute
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1662 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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[Although fumage or smoke money was as old as the Conquest, the first parliamentary levy of hearth or chimney money was by statute
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 15: March/April 1661-62 Samuel Pepys 1668
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[Although fumage or smoke money was as old as the Conquest, the first parliamentary levy of hearth or chimney money was by statute
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Mar/Apr 1661/62 Pepys, Samuel 1662
whichbe commented on the word fumage
A method of making an image with smoke fumes. Fumage was invented by Wolfgang Paalen, whose first fumages were made with a kerosene lamp. When surrealist painter Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1988), made a fumage, he called the method sfumato; and some have spelled this term sfumage. (From ArtLex)
June 5, 2008
fbharjo commented on the word fumage
leaves one fuming
January 29, 2010