英语词汇homage的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	homage
词源	homage. When we pay homage to someone we are acknowl- edging our respect for him. This is what peasants were required by law to do in a medieval ceremony called homage (from the French homme, “man”), which demanded that a vassal kneel before his lord on the feudal estate and swear allegiance that he would ever be his man. From the ceremony comes our word homage, first recorded in 1390 in anything like its modern sense.
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