Homage (Old Fr. ; Low Lat. homaticum ; Lat. homo, 'man') is the service due from a knight or vassal to his lord in feudal times, the vassal professing to become his lord's man. See FEUDALISM.
Homage
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 753
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