vergée

English

Etymology

From Norman vergée, from Anglo-Norman vergé, vergee, originally terre vergee (“measured land”). Doublet of virgate.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈvəːʒeɪ/

Noun

vergée (plural vergées)

1. (Channel Islands) A measure of land, having varying values in Guernsey and Jersey, but approximately 18,000 square feet.
   • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 34:

     Her father had given her a cottage in the Robergerie with a vergée of land and a greenhouse.

Anagrams

• greeve

French

Etymology

Inherited from Latin virgāta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛʁ.ʒe/

Noun

vergée f (plural vergées)

1. rood (quarter of an acre)

Participle

vergée f sg

1. feminine singular of vergé

Further reading

• “vergée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norman

Noun

vergée f (plural vergées)

1. (Guernsey, Jersey) vergée