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

On the morrow, the neighbourhood was thrown into a state of alarm by a cottager having found poor Toby Lackpenny in a swoon upon his shop-board.

From Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) by Cooper, Thomas

The oldest person in the village was a woman—as is often the case—reputed to be over a hundred: a tidy cottager, well tended, feeble in body, but brisk of tongue.

From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard

He began to look about him, and to question the kind cottager, 'What's this?' or, 'What's that?'

From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Banks, Mrs. G. Linnaeus