cottager
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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.
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
The oldest person in the village was a woman—as is often the case—reputed to be over a hundred: a tidy cottager, well tended, feeble in body, but brisk of tongue.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard
