serfs

Example Sentences

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They want illiterate, groveling serfs, who live in fear and don’t stick around too long.

From Salon • Nov. 23, 2025

Displays blurred the lines between rebellion and refinement, presenting collections that navigated through time — evoking medieval serfs with a modern twist and embracing minimalist aesthetics reminiscent of the 1990s.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2024

Leasehold dates back hundreds of years - before women even had the right to own property - to a time of lords and landowners, peasants and serfs.

From BBC • Feb. 25, 2024

Catherine had to deal with fractious nobles and rebellious serfs; I have to deal with a mutinous tree — it’s basically the same thing.

From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2023

Now beet sugar set an example of modern farming that helped convince Russian nobles that it was time to free their millions of serfs.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson