brassage

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French

Noun

brassage (usually uncountable, plural brassages)

1. A sum formerly levied to pay the expense of coinage; seigniorage.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “brassage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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French

Etymology

brasser +‎ -age

Pronunciation

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Noun

brassage m (plural brassages)

1. brewing of beer
2. (figuratively) intermingling of different peoples, cultures and ideas

Further reading

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