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peage (iou) and alliteration (sh)


peage (iou)



peage noun. In sense 1 also payage. LME.
[Old & mod. French from medieval Latin pedaticum, from Latin ped-, pes foot: see -AGE: cf. PEDAGE. In sense 2 from mod. French.]
Toll paid for passing through a place or country. obsolete in gen. sense. LME.
Toll paid to Travel on a French motorway; a gate or barrier where this is paid. L20.

alliteration (sh)




or head rhyme

Repetition of consonant sounds in two or more neighbouring words or syllables.

A frequently used poetic device, it is often discussed with assonance (the repetition of stressed vowel sounds within two or more words with different end consonants) and consonance (the repetition of end or medial consonants).