- a right to receive maintenance in the form of housing, food, or clothing, especially the right enjoyed by the sovereign or a private benefactor to receive such maintenance from a religious house.
- the housing, food, or clothing so received.
- (originally) the right of a lord to receive free quarters from his vassal
- an allowance for maintenance
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