VILLEIN


Meaning of VILLEIN in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

On the demesne are 2 ploughs and 44 villeins with 12 borders have 28 ploughs.

Spenser makes it clear that the villeins are not individually dangerous to the superior knights.

What is interesting is that the insect imagery used to characterise the villeins is continued here.

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