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cottager

[kot-i-jer] / ˈkɒt ɪ dʒər /
NOUN
country gentleman
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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

The old blind cottager, was one who trusted in the Lord, and believed that he did all things well.

From Gleanings by the Way by Clark, John A.

He began to look about him, and to question the kind cottager, 'What's this?' or, 'What's that?'

From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Banks, Mrs. G. Linnaeus

Ere the cottager could quit his door, up came the parson and demanded help; but the cottager honestly told the parson "he would look better at home."

From Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) by Cooper, Thomas