Bondservant

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An indentured servant.

    "The captain was an upstart, a product of the democratic idea operating upon the poor white man, the descendant of the indentured bondservant and the socially unfit."

Example

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"The captain was an upstart, a product of the democratic idea operating upon the poor white man, the descendant of the indentured bondservant and the socially unfit."

Etymology

From bond + servant.

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