cottager
Example Sentences
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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
Some years since the wife of a respectable cottager in my neighbourhood died in childbed.
He simply supposed it to be some peasant girl coming up the path—for in such a light, and at such distance, who could tell the difference between a cottager and a queen?
From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne
He had attained, in their eyes, a new dignity in becoming a cottager.
From The Main Chance by Nicholson, Meredith
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
