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cottager

[kot-i-jer] / ˈkɒt ɪ dʒər /
NOUN
country gentleman
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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

We cross the railway near a station, which, as a cottager told me is “Mr. Pease’s station; built for hisself, and not for everybody;” and take a bridle road leading to the hill.

From A Month in Yorkshire by White, Walter

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

In the autumn after the harvest the gleaning is still an important time to the cottager, though nothing like it used to be.

From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard




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