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ALNAGE, or ALLNAGE (from Fr. aune, ell) , the official super-vision of the shape and quality of manufactured woollen cloth
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imposition . Owing to the introduction of the alternative standard, a distinction arose between " broadcloth " (cloth of two yards) and " streit " or "strait " (narrow cloth of one yard). The meaning now attached to broadcloth, however, is merely that of material of superior quality. Alnage duties and the office of alnager were abolished in 1699.See W. J. Ashley, Economic History; and W. Cunningham, Growth of English
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