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

I was met at the door by a man whose appearance was that of a simple cottager, and his manners indicated all the simplicity of rural life.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various

This would immediately give the alarm, and set the kingdom on their guard; this would give courage to the meanest tenant and cottager.

From Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734 by Daly, J. Bowles (John Bowles)

He simply supposed it to be some peasant girl coming up the path—for in such a light, and at such distance, who could tell the difference between a cottager and a queen?

From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne