corvee

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

To do so, they resurrected corvée, a 19th-century Haitian law for indentured labor.

From New York Times • May 20, 2022

But it is also the ideogram for šisîtu, the call of the nâgiru to war or the corvée.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)

Liability for forced labor The army and corvée, or levy for forced labor, were chiefly obtained from the slaves, and above all from the serfs.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)

A right like the corvée had a sinister meaning.

From A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 by Wrong, George McKinnon

"But they don't believe in the corvée, surely?"

From Ringfield A Novel by Harrison, S. Frances (Susie Frances)