messuage

/mes-wij/US // ˈmɛs wɪdʒ //UK // (ˈmɛswɪdʒ) //

中屋,宅院,宅邸,庄园

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
Law.
- : a dwelling house with its adjacent buildings and the lands appropriated to the use of the household.

This is very suggestive of a law-writer's spelling of "message" (messuage and tenement).
The ancient great hall of this messuage is yet standing, and pertaining to a great brewhouse for beer.
On the other hand, a poor woman holds a messuage, and need do no more than carry water to the mowers.
He'll fancy dancers cattle, and present his lady with messuage and tenement.
Reginald Cobham gave his messuage in London to the enlarging thereof, in the year 1344.