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

Allot′ment, the act of allotting: part or share allotted: a portion of a field assigned to a cottager to labour for himself.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

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

On the morrow, the neighbourhood was thrown into a state of alarm by a cottager having found poor Toby Lackpenny in a swoon upon his shop-board.

From Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) by Cooper, Thomas