▪ I. † ˈtarage, n.1 Obs.
Also 5 tarrage: see also the collateral form tallage n.2
[app. of F. origin; etymology unascertained.]
Taste, flavour; quality, character; esp. as derived or communicated.
| c 1407 Lydg. Reson & Sens. 3943 Swich is the tarage of the roote, Somtyme as any sugre soote And bitter sodeynly as galle. 1429 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 141 Of all these thy grene tender age,..Of manly prowesse shal taken tarage. c 1430 Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 180 Ner the vyne his holsome fressh tarage, Whiche yeveth comforte to al maner age. Ibid. 192 Thus every thing,..As frute and trees, and folke of every degré, Fro whens they come thei take a tarage. c 1450 Lydg. & Burgh Secrees 1886 Watrys that renne be many diuers londys,..Which tarage haue of foreyn dyvers sondys. 14.. Epiphanye in Tundale's Vis. 119 Thys day he turned water into wyne..of tarage [MS. Soc. Antiq. 134 lf. 26 talage] inly gud and fyne. |
▪ II. † tarage, n.2 Obs.
[app. variant form of terrage.]
? A ground in artistic representation.
| 1439 in Archæologia XXI. 37 An Image of Seynt George beyng upon a grene tarage, w{supt} a damasell knelyng. c 1468 Ibid. XXXI. 336 On every tarage a tree of gold. |
▪ III. † ˈtarage, v. Obs.
[f. tarage n.1]
To have a character or quality of some kind, to ‘taste of’, ‘smell of’ (intr. and trans.). So † ˈtaraged a., having a (specified) quality or character.
| c 1407 Lydg. Reson & Sens. 3378 Hyr tayl ys werray serpentyne, And hir bely eke Capryne,..whan she is hoot, Rammysh taraged as a goot. c 1430 ― Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 217 Frut fet fro fer tarageth of the tre. 1430–40 ― Bochas iv. xv. (MS. Bodl. 263) lf. 243/2 How man and beeste & euery creature Tarageth the stok of his natyvite. Ibid. viii. xxiv. lf. 402/1 Eche werm sume parti taragethe of his brood. |