brassage
English
Etymology
French
Noun
brassage (usually uncountable, plural brassages)
- A sum formerly levied to pay the expense of coinage; seigniorage.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for brassage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
French
Etymology
brasser + -age
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
brassage m (plural brassages)
- brewing of beer
- (figuratively) intermingling of different peoples, cultures and ideas
Further reading
- “brassage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.