cottager

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Contented account of how the author succeeded in her early ambition to become a Roman Catholic, a Sussex cottager, a prolific novelist.

From Time Magazine Archive

That was not enough to stave off noisy charges that Mulroney was a "cottager," or outsider.

From Time Magazine Archive

All in this room was rich and costly, while the dame's own quarters were as plain as those of any other cottager.

From The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book by Harrison, Constance Cary

Allot′ment, the act of allotting: part or share allotted: a portion of a field assigned to a cottager to labour for himself.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

A female cottager is preparing her family mess, when Death enters and carries off the youngest of her children.

From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Douce, Francis