Cottier
name, noun
name, noun ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 a medieval English villein wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname from French.
Example
More examples"[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."
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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