cottager
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That was not enough to stave off noisy charges that Mulroney was a "cottager," or outsider.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
But the cottager thought it was better there than nowhere: he would get his food, for all the pay he was to get was his board—there was nothing said about wages or clothes.
From Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales by Asbj?rnsen, P. Chr.
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
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
