A fee or payment made to a consul; the office, duties, or jurisdiction of a consul.
From 'consul' (Roman magistrate or modern diplomat) + '-age' (condition, office, or fee related to). The '-age' suffix, from Latin and French, creates a noun describing fees or institutional roles associated with consuls.
In medieval Venice and other trading cities, paying 'consulage' to a merchant consul was basically how international trade worked before modern government—local merchants would tax their own countrymen doing business abroad to fund the consul's office.
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