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

There is a widespread story of a fairy woman who begs a cottager not to throw water out at the doorstep, as it falls down her chimney.

From Ulster Folklore by Andrews, Elizabeth

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

Once on a time there was a cottager who had an only son, and this lad was weakly, and hadn't much health to speak of; so he couldn't go out to work in the field.

From Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales by Asbj?rnsen, P. Chr.