| 释义 |
livier local.|ˈlaɪvɪə(r)|
[? f. live(s), pl. of life + -ier.]
One who holds a tenement on a lease for a life or lives.
1883T. Hardy in Longm. Mag. July 269 Many of these families had been life-holders... The ‘liviers’ (as these half-independent villagers used to be called). 1891― Tess (1900) 127/2 ‘Liviers’ were disapproved of in villages almost as much as little freeholders. |