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Word History and Origins
Origin of cottier1
C14: from Old French cotier; see cote 1, coterie
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Example Sentences
Cottier, one of these, was paid a retaining fee of ten thousand crowns, besides great sums in lands and money.
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Poor Maurice, whose heart could never stand the slightest wrong done the humblest cottier on his land, how will he bear up now?
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The greater number of them are, however, evidently the holdings of small cottier tenants.
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Then follows a list of the little cottier tenants, and their holdings and services.
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There were also holders of fardels or quarter-virgates, and half-fardels, or one-eighth-virgates, and other small cottier tenants.
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