英语词汇“corvée”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

corvée

/ˈkɔːveɪ

noun historical

1A day’s unpaid labour owed by a vassal to his feudal lord.It is not known whether that work was undertaken by the free decision of those mountain dwellers or by the local communal authority that imposed corvées on them during winter when work in the fields was minimal....

They may well have been the unwilling victims of the corvée or compulsory labour system, the system that allowed the pharaoh to compel his people to work for three or four month shifts on state projects.
The corvée, forced labour for road construction and maintenance, took hands away from the fields for substantial periods every year; and when, under Louis XVI, it began to be commuted, the cost was added to the tax-bill.

1.1 [mass noun] Forced labour exacted in lieu of taxes, in particular that on public roads in France before 1776: they still force the peasants to do corvée...

It's past population statistics are the result of registration for corvée and, later, for poll-tax, and can give evidence only of broad trends.
Thus the landlords retained their old labour services without the traditional obligations of a seigneur, while the peasants continued to do their corvée with very little to show in the way of landownership.
Without the subsidy of conquest, documentary sources tell us, taxes slowly crept up, labour corvées became longer, and arbitrary requisitions were more frequent.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French, based on Latin corrogare 'ask for, collect'. Rare in English before the late 18th century.

单词	corvée
释义	corvée /ˈkɔːveɪ / noun historical 1A day’s unpaid labour owed by a vassal to his feudal lord.It is not known whether that work was undertaken by the free decision of those mountain dwellers or by the local communal authority that imposed corvées on them during winter when work in the fields was minimal.... They may well have been the unwilling victims of the corvée or compulsory labour system, the system that allowed the pharaoh to compel his people to work for three or four month shifts on state projects. The corvée, forced labour for road construction and maintenance, took hands away from the fields for substantial periods every year; and when, under Louis XVI, it began to be commuted, the cost was added to the tax-bill. 1.1 [mass noun] Forced labour exacted in lieu of taxes, in particular that on public roads in France before 1776: they still force the peasants to do corvée... It's past population statistics are the result of registration for corvée and, later, for poll-tax, and can give evidence only of broad trends. Thus the landlords retained their old labour services without the traditional obligations of a seigneur, while the peasants continued to do their corvée with very little to show in the way of landownership. Without the subsidy of conquest, documentary sources tell us, taxes slowly crept up, labour corvées became longer, and arbitrary requisitions were more frequent. Origin Middle English: from Old French, based on Latin corrogare 'ask for, collect'. Rare in English before the late 18th century.
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