serviceage

English

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Etymology

From service +‎ -age.

Noun

serviceage (uncountable)

(obsolete) servitude
- 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Eight Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 83, page 158:
  His threats he feareth and obaies the raine / Of thraldome baſe,and ſeruiceage, though loth, [...]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “serviceage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)