messuage

英 ['meswɪdʒ] 美['mɛswɪdʒ]

messuage (n.): legal term for "dwelling," late 14c., (late 13c. in Anglo-Latin), from Anglo-French messuage, which probably is a clerical error for mesnage (see menage). Originally the portion of land set aside for a dwelling-house and outbuildings, whether occupied by them or not; later chiefly in reference to the house and buildings and the attached land.

1. It is an old messuage and my daughter's lodging is a row of old - fashioned houses.: 一个老宅院,女儿住宿的房子就是一排老式房子.