cottager
Example Sentences
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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
It is, however, not only the common people, the cottager and the village publican who desire to possess such ornaments.
From Birds and Man by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
He simply supposed it to be some peasant girl coming up the path—for in such a light, and at such distance, who could tell the difference between a cottager and a queen?
From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne
Some years since the wife of a respectable cottager in my neighbourhood died in childbed.
