Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PILL'AGE
PILL'AGE, n. [Fr. from piller, to strip or peel.]
- Plunder; spoil; that which is taken from another by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war.
- The act of plundering.
- In architecture, a square pillar behind a column to bear up the arches. – Cyc.
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