cottager

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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

That was not enough to stave off noisy charges that Mulroney was a "cottager," or outsider.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Andrews, Elizabeth

I knew him well, he was a cottager whose two sons had had to go to the war.

From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul

Juliet remained confounded; while the tender old cottager shed tears, saying that she had never before had so pretty a companion in her life.

From The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny