Associations to the word «Prisage»
Noun
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Wiktionary
PRISAGE, noun. (legal) (UK) (obsolete) A right belonging to the crown of England, of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing twenty tuns or more: one before and one behind the mast.
PRISAGE, noun. (obsolete) The share of merchandise taken as lawful prize at sea which belongs to the king or admiral.
Wise words
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of because words
diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem
timeless when they are in your head to no more than living
size when they are brought out.