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
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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
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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)
He had attained, in their eyes, a new dignity in becoming a cottager.
From The Main Chance by Nicholson, Meredith
Allot′ment, the act of allotting: part or share allotted: a portion of a field assigned to a cottager to labour for himself.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various