corvee
Example Sentences
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To do so, they resurrected corvée, a 19th-century Haitian law for indentured labor.
From New York Times • May 20, 2022
Mr. Burbidge secured one, a Grammatophyllum, ‘as big as a Pickford’s van,’ which a corvée of Dyaks could not lift.
From The Woodlands Orchids by Boyle, Frederick
A right like the corvée had a sinister meaning.
From A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 by Wrong, George McKinnon
Something analogous to the corvée existed, I believe, in Hungary till a comparatively recent period, when it was commuted for rent.
From Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Becker, Bernard H.
The seigneur levied a corvée of so many days' labour, which he employed on the useful task of improving the highway.
From A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 by Wrong, George McKinnon
