See shroffage on Wiktionary
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{ "etymology_text": "From shroff (“to examine coin for debasement etc.”) + -age (“forming nouns regarding a rate or charge”).", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "-" }, "expansion": "shroffage (uncountable)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English terms with historical senses", "English terms with quotations", "English uncountable nouns", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1629, cited in William Foster, The English Factories in India, page 354", "text": "Shraffage is halfe a riall per every thousand rialls." }, { "ref": "1766, Thomas Brooks, An Authentick Account of All the Different Coins... by Which Accompts in the East Indies Are Kept, page 49:", "text": "Brokerage 1½ per Cent. Shroffage 1 per Thousand.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "The commission paid to a shroff for examining coins for quality." ], "links": [ [ "commission", "commission" ], [ "paid", "paid" ], [ "shroff", "shroff" ], [ "examining", "examining" ], [ "coin", "coin" ], [ "quality", "quality" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(historical) The commission paid to a shroff for examining coins for quality." ], "tags": [ "historical", "uncountable" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ˈʃɹɒfɪd͡ʒ/" } ], "synonyms": [ { "tags": [ "obsolete" ], "word": "shraffage" }, { "tags": [ "obsolete" ], "word": "sherofferage" } ], "word": "shroffage" }
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