Cense

A cense (likely originating from the Walloon and Picard cinse, meaning "farm") is a Meierhof or type of farm found in certain regions of France and Francophone Belgium.[1][2]

The word derives from the Late Latin censa, which refers to a type of rural lease present since Late Antiquity, and would later become the name for a farm itself.[3] A censier himself was thus a tenant farmer lacking many real possessions.

The Censes (abbreviated Cse) of Belgium are recorded with their respective names in the Ferraris Map, a historical map of the 1770s Austrian Netherlands.

References

  1. ^ "CENSE". francois.gannaz.free.fr (in French). 23 September 2025. Archived from the original on 29 January 2011. Retrieved 23 September 2025.
  2. ^ "CENSE : Définition de CENSE". cnrtl.fr (Website of the Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales) (in French). 23 September 2025. Archived from the original on 13 November 2021. Retrieved 23 September 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. ^ "CENSE : Etymologie de CENSE". cnrtl.fr (Website of the Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales) (in French). 23 September 2025. Archived from the original on 13 November 2021. Retrieved 23 September 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
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