sulliage

English

Etymology

Compare sullage, suillage, or sully (verb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌl.i.əd͡ʒ/

Noun

sulliage (countable and uncountable, plural sulliages)

1. (obsolete) foulness; filth
   • 1667, attributed to Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. […], London: […] R. Norton for T. Garthwait, […], →OCLC:

     Though we wipe away with never so much care the dirt thrown at us, there will be left some sulliage behind.

   • 1653, Henry Hammond, Paraphrase and Annotations on the New Testament:

     the sins and sulliages of their earthly […] affections

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “sulliage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• ill-usage, suillage