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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

Visit the poorest and humblest cottager, who knows nothing of theology, and cannot even repeat the creed.

From Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by Ryle, John Charles

Some years since the wife of a respectable cottager in my neighbourhood died in childbed.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 110, December 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

The local parliament in the parish hall may sometimes be unattended by a single cottager.

From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)