A fee or tax paid for the maintenance or use of a barbican and its fortifications.
Formed from 'barbican' with the suffix '-age', which creates nouns indicating a fee, duty, or practice related to the root word.
In medieval towns, barbicanage was like a 'protection tax'—residents paid to keep these crucial defenses in good repair!
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