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
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
The oldest person in the village was a woman—as is often the case—reputed to be over a hundred: a tidy cottager, well tended, feeble in body, but brisk of tongue.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Richard Jefferies
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 Elizabeth Andrews
Visit the poorest and humblest cottager, who knows nothing of theology, and cannot even repeat the creed.
From Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by John Charles Ryle
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