Villenage \Vil"len*age\, n. [See {Villanage}.] (Feudal Law) Villanage. --Blackstone.
Villanage \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.