feuage (fuaj)

[OF. feuage, fouage, foage (ML. reflex foagium ), fire-wood, a tax on fireplaces, OF. feu, fireplace, fire): see fuel, focus.] A tax formerly imposed upon fireplaces and chimneys. The Prince of Wales. imposing a new taxation upon the Gas coignes, of Feuage or Chymney money, so discontented the people as they exclaime against the government of the English. Daniel , Hist. Eng., p. 214.