Vil"lan*age (?; 48), n. [OF. villenage, vilenage. See Villain.] 1.
(Feudal Law) The state of a villain, or serf; base servitude; tenure on
condition of doing the meanest services for the lord. [In this sense
written also villenage, and villeinage.]
I speak even now as if sin were condemned in a perpetual villanage,
never to be manumitted.
Milton.
Some faint traces of villanage were detected by the curious so late as
the days of the Stuarts.
Macaulay.