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

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

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 Klickmann, Flora

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