roturier

[ raw-ty-ryey; English roh-toor-ee-ey, -tyoor- ]

noun

, French.

, plural ro·tu·riers [r, aw-t, y, -, ryey, roh-, toor, -ee-eyz, -, tyoor, -].

1. a person of low rank; plebeian.

Example Sentences

The noble has gone down on the social ladder, and the roturier has gone up; the one descends as the other rises.

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Désirée, our femme-de-chambre, before she came to us, lived in a wealthy roturier family.

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The whiskers of a roturier, my good Lankin, grow as long as the beard of a Plantagenet.

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That a roturier, a plain peasant, or even a tradesman, should become the social equal of a noble was a thing unheard of.

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Few men of his stamp indulge in the weakness of railing at Fortune, which is the privilege and consolation of the roturier.

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