vergée

From Norman vergée, from Anglo-Norman vergé, vergee, originally terre vergee (“measured land”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈvəːʒeɪ/

vergée (plural vergées)

1. (Channel Islands) A measure of land, having varying values in Guernsey and Jersey, but approximately 18,000 square feet.
   • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 34:

     Her father had given her a cottage in the Robergerie with a vergée of land and a greenhouse.

• greeve

From Latin virgata.

• IPA^(key): /vɛʁ.ʒe/

vergée f (plural vergées)

1. rood (quarter of an acre)

vergée f

1. feminine singular of the past participle of verger

• “vergée” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

vergée f (plural vergées)

1. (Guernsey, Jersey) vergée