Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Brassage"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Brassage \Bras"sage\, n. [F.]
A sum formerly levied to pay the expense of coinage; -- now
called {seigniorage}.
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