ˈboard-ˈwages, board wages
Wages allowed to servants to keep themselves in victual.
| 1539 Househ. Ord. (1790) 211 Bills of allowance..for Wages and Boardwages. 1557 Order of Hospitals Fvj. 1692 Southerne Wives Exc. i. i. Dram. Wks. (1721) 270 Starve under the tyranny of a Housekeeper, and never know the comfort of boardwages again. 1695 Congreve Love for L. i. i. 12 If you please, I had rather be at Board-wages. 1875 Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 46 They are on board wages. |