Obs. Also 5 tarrage: see also the collateral form TALLAGE sb.2 [app. of F. origin; etymology unascertained.] Taste, flavor; quality, character; esp. as derived or communicated.
c. 1407. Lydg., Reson & Sens., 3943. Swich is the tarage of the roote, Somtyme as any sugre soote And bitter sodeynly as galle.
1429. Pol. Poems (Rolls), II. 141. Or all these thy grene tender age,… of manly prowesse shal taken tarage.
c. 1430. Lydg., Min. Poems (Percy Soc.), 180. Ner the vyne his holsome fressh tarage, whiche yeveth comforte to al maner age. Ibid., 192. Thus every thing,… As frute and trees, and folke of every degré, Fro when they come thei take a tarage.
c. 1450. Lydg. & Burgh, Secrees, 1886. Watrys that renne be many diuers londys,… Which tarage haue of foreyn dyvers sondys.
14[?]. Epiphanye, in Tundale’s Vis., 119. Thys day he turned water into wyne … of tarage [MS. Soc. Antiq. 134 lf. 26 talage] inly gud and fyne.
