largesse

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A specific gift of money, etc., given in this way, specifically (historical) at harvest time; a donation, a gratuity.

   Giue gloues to thy reapers, a larges to crie, / And dailie to loiterers haue a good eie.

From Middle English larges, largess, largesse [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman largece, largesce, Middle French largece, largesce, largesse, and Old French largesce (“breadth, width; request for a monetary gift; (act of) generous giving; (chiefly in the plural) generous gift; generosity, liberality”) (in Anglo-Norman also “liberty; privilege”; modern French largesse), from large (“big, large; generous; wide”).

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