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noun
- (historic) a plot of land as the site for a house
- 1985: Matthias turned his lonely house into a mart where furniture, plate and titledeeds to fields and messuages could be brought, evaluated, and transferred to the hands of the primal twelve as administrators. " Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked
- a residential house with its assigned land
Etymology: Anglo-Norman mesuage, probably originally a misreading of mesnage "ménage, household".
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