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Cottier

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from French.
Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who lives in a cot or cottage; a cottager.

    "[W]hat he objects to giving, is a little return on rent-days to help a tenant to buy stock, or an outlay on repairs to keep the weather out at a tenant's barn-door or make his house look a little less like an Irish cottier's."

  2. 2
    a medieval English villein wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Old French cotier. See coterie, and compare cotter.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French Cottier, or a variant of Cotter.

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