serf

Example Sentences

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They want illiterate, groveling serfs, who live in fear and don’t stick around too long.

From Salon

These dates, along with the solstices and equinoxes, were traditional times when serfs paid their rent to their feudal masters, usually in the form of livestock or grain.

From Washington Post

Beijing promotes a narrative where it freed "serfs and slaves" from a brutal theocracy, set Tibet on a path of modernisation, and vastly improved Tibetans' lives.

From BBC

One even began with the words, "Dear fellow serfs..."

From BBC

Defeat against Japan in 1905 was followed by constitutional reform, and after defeat in the Crimean war in 1856 came emancipation of the serfs.

From BBC