cottager

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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

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

I knew him well, he was a cottager whose two sons had had to go to the war.

From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul

All in this room was rich and costly, while the dame's own quarters were as plain as those of any other cottager.

From The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book by Harrison, Constance Cary