villein|villeins in English

noun

serf, indentured servant, vassal, servant who is bound to a feudal lord and can be transferred with the estate; (Law) type of slave during the feudal era

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1. Below the villeins in the social scale came the Cottiers …

2. So Besmottered, he meant, so poor I took you for a villein

3. So Besmottered, he meant, so poor I took you for a villein

4. Villagers raised to Burgherhood are not called villeins, but no doubt such in fact they had been

5. 11 What is interesting is that the insect imagery used to characterise the villeins is continued here.

6. What does Cottar mean? A medieval villein who occupied a cottage with a small piece of land in return for labor

7. What does Bordar mean? (history) A person ranking below villeins and above serfs in the social hierarchy of a manor, holding just enough land t

8. ‘All villeins and Cottars in the Seven Kingdoms gather to celebrate the successful harvests of the summer seasons and to prepare for the coming winter.’

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10. Bordar ( plural Bordars ) ( historical) A person ranking below villeins and above serfs in the social hierarchy of a manor, holding just enough land to feed a family (about five acres) and required to provide labour on the demesne on specified days of the week