The office, position, or authority of an alnager, a historical official who inspected cloth quality and collected taxes in medieval England.
From Middle English alnager (an official who measured cloth) combined with -ship (a suffix denoting office or position). The alnager role dates back to 13th-century England, likely from Old French aulnage meaning the measuring of cloth.
Medieval cloth inspectors were so important to trade that they had an official title and power structure—imagine today's government regulators but for fabric, traveling town to town making sure merchants weren't cheating customers with short yards of wool.
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