messuage
C2CEFR level
97/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
A dwelling-house together with its outbuildings, curtilage and adjacent land assigned to its use.
The abstract described the property as a messuage with garden, orchard and coach-house.
Business noun
A dwelling house together with its outbuildings and the adjacent land assigned to it.
The deed conveyed the messuage and all barns, yards, and gardens belonging to it.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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