单词 | cottier |
释义 | cottier/ˈkɒtɪə /noun 1 archaic A rural labourer living in a cottage.The tenants, she noted, were a varied group, comprising farmers with large holdings, smallholders and at the bottom of the pile the landless cottiers and labourers, many of whom disappeared without trace in the middle of the 19th century....
2 historical An Irish peasant holding land by cottier tenure.But Mr. Mill forgets that, till you change the character of the Irish cottier, peasant-proprietorship would work no miracles....
OriginMiddle English: from Old French cotier, ultimately of Germanic origin and related to cot2. |
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