bondage

second half of the 20th century. from the English word 'bondage', literally 'slavery', but which also refers to the erotic practice in the sense used in French. Bondage denotes the state of slavery in Old English, but also the fact of being a serf. It comes from the Anglo-Latin 'bondagium', from the Old English 'bond' 'serf', from the Old Norse 'bóndi' 'tiller of the soil', from 'búa' 'to dwell'. Bondage has been influenced by 'bond' in the modern sense of 'restricted'.