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单词 lovecop
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lovecopn.

Brit. /ˈlʌvkɒp/, U.S. /ˈləvˌkɑp/
Forms: Middle English lufcop, Middle English lufcoup, Middle English luffkoep, Middle English luvecop, Middle English 1700s–1800s lovecope, Middle English 1900s– lovecop, 1800s lofcop, 1800s lofcope.
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Probably a borrowing from Dutch, combined with an English element; perhaps modelled on a Dutch lexical item. Etymons: love n.1; Dutch coop.
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Apparently < love n.1 + a second element probably borrowed < Middle Dutch coop trade, purchase (compare later cope n.3 and cope v.3), perhaps after Middle Dutch lijfcoop earnest money, although compare also Middle Dutch lōven to recommend or offer (merchandise) for sale, to approve, to permit, to promise, to stand surety for (see love v.2). The form lufcoup in quot. 1299 could also suggest an early Scandinavian model (compare coup v.1).For differing interpretations of the word see Brit. Borough Charters 1042–1216 (1913) pp. lxix–lxx and 255–6, and also J. W. Spargo 'Chaucer's Love-Days' in Speculum 15 (1940) 55.
Now historical and rare.
Originally probably: the right of the king or the lord of a port to purchase part of the merchandise previously purchased by a merchant at the same price that he had paid for it. In modern use understood as: a tax or toll levied on merchants.Recorded earliest in lovecopfree adj. at Compounds.The precise nature of this duty is unknown.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > market dues > [noun] > other market dues
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1252 in A. Ballard & J. Tait Brit. Borough Charters (1923) 259 (MED) Werkfri, witefri, lestagefri, et locoffri.
1299 in H. Harrod Rep. Deeds & Rec. King's Lynn (1874) 93 [Richard Sanby, 5 s. All this Tallage allowed him for a quarter of wheat the Bailiffs of the Tolbooth took of him for] lufcoup [for divers Burgesses].
1374 in H. Harrod Rep. Deeds & Rec. King's Lynn (1874) 83 Lovecop [mentioned with tronage and measurage].
1474 in T. Rymer Fœdera (1710) XI. 798 (MED) Quod Mercatores prædicti Exonerabuntur a quadam Exactione, vulgariter dicta Princemoney sive Luffkoep.
1850 Notes & Queries 6 Apr. 371/2Lovecope’ might perhaps be the designation of the association of merchants itself, to which Jeakes alludes; and the liberty of forming such association, with powers of imposing port duties, may have been dependent on special grant to any port by royal charter, such as that which forms the subject of your correspondent's communication.
1857 Times 27 May 11/4 [Law Cases.] A decree had been agreed upon..the effect of which would be to declare his Royal Highness..entitled..to a moiety of the custom or duty of ‘lofcop’, that is, to one moiety of the duties levied specifically upon corn, grain, or seeds exported by water from the port..of Lynn.
1913 Brit. Borough Charters 1042–1216 p. lxx I believe that the ‘lovecop’ was the right of one's lord or fellow burgesses to share in his bargains.

Compounds

lovecopfree adj. (also locofri, locoffri, lovecopfry) Obsolete Exempt from paying lovecop.
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1252*Locoffri [see main sense].
1278 in A. Ballard & J. Tait Brit. Borough Charters (1923) 260 (MED) Lovecopfry [v.r. Lovecopefree].
1313 Royal Charter: Henry II to Hythe in Speculum (1940) 15 55 (MED) Locofri.
a1690 S. Jeake Charters Cinque Ports (1728) Annot. 12 Lovecopefree, The Saxon Word Cope, in Low Dutch still Kope or Koope, for Trade or Merchandising, makes this as much as to trade freely for Love. So that by no kind of Monopoly, Patent, or Company, or Society of Traders, or Merchants, the Ports Men be hindered from Merchandising: but freely and for Love be permitted to Trade and Traffick, even by such Company of Merchants, whenever it shall happen their Concern lie together.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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