villein

Example Sentences

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Instead of a national debt, there is an accumulated surplus of $220 for each vassal, serf and villein.

From Time Magazine Archive

If a villein inherited enough strips of land to support his family, or if he was lucky enough to serve an honest and generous lord, he might live in relative comfort.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz

Only neither the villein nor the farm labourer starved, when the master was a man like Sir Ector.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

It wasn’t his fault — a villein only gets what the lord lets him keep, and our lord was tightfisted.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz

A villein who ran away and lived in town for a year and a day gained his freedom.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz