† putage Obs.
[a. OF. putage (Godef.), f. pute harlot, pute + -age.]
Fornication on the part of a woman; whoredom. (Cf. putery.)
| 1480 Caxton Ovid's Met. xii. iii, Yt pleseth me better that men saye that Helayne is a good wyf than she had doon putage. 1670 Blount Law Dict., Putage, fornicatio ex parte fœminæ. 1706 in Phillips (ed. Kersey). |