cottager
Example Sentences
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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
That was not enough to stave off noisy charges that Mulroney was a "cottager," or outsider.
From Time Magazine Archive
A poor cottager in one of our country villages, some years ago, out of curiosity, came to one of our mission festivals.
From Pine Needles by Susan Warner
Why is it that the amateur so often describes the cottager in this "poor but pious" strain?
From The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors by Flora Klickmann
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
