cottager
Example Sentences
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Revolutionary leader Samuel Adams put it well: “The cottager may beget a wise son; the noble, a fool. The one is capable of great improvement; the other, not.”
From Washington Post
The leadership simply doesn’t know how it will exist without the cottagers tithing them millions.
From Washington Post
It would now have been evident to both men that the object that they were rapidly closing in on was not some cottager’s wayward laundry but rather a human body—but whose body?
From Salon
The nickname is a tribute to wealthy out-of-towners, called “cottagers,” who built mansions during the gilded age and employed the locals.
From Seattle Times
Traffic out of Toronto can be a hassle, but luckier cottagers charter planes into the Muskoka Airport, and some have installed helipads on their properties.
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