[1595–1605; tent1 + -age]This word is first recorded in the period 1595–1605. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: detail, premium, redundant, slur, vernacular-age is a suffix typically forming mass or abstract nouns from various parts of speech,occurring originally in loanwords from French (voyage; courage) and productive in English with the meanings “aggregate” (coinage; peerage; trackage), “process” (coverage; breakage), “the outcome of” as either “the fact of” or “the physical effect or remains of”(seepage; wreckage; spoilage), “place of living or business” (parsonage; brokerage), “social standing or relationship” (bondage; marriage; patronage), and “quantity, measure, or charge” (footage; shortage; tonnage; towage)
Examples of 'tentage' in a sentence
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Large quantities of tentage were needed to house refugees.