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

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)

Juliet remained confounded; while the tender old cottager shed tears, saying that she had never before had so pretty a companion in her life.

From The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny

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