black rent

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Blackmail (rent paid in corn, meat, or the lowest coin). dated,uncountable
    — [F]rom whose rich domains in Meath he received a “black rent” equivalent to £10,000 a year[.]
  2. Protection money. Ireland,historical,uncountable
    — [N]othing could have preserved them from total extirpation but the assistance afforded them by the other Irish princes and tribes, whose friendship and protection they purchased by paying them a tribute, or black rent, as it was called.
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