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bondslave

[ bond-sleyv ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

First recorded in 1555–65; bond ² + slave

Ye weave gold into your tunics, he had not even the vilest garment of your bondslave.

Bow, bondslave, before the throne of your despot's glorious heels so glistening in their proud erectness.

That her bondslave should have dared to dream of freedom was almost too preposterous for belief.

Hitherto I have been driven with revolt to what I would not; I was a bondslave to poverty, driven and scourged.

Why not a new critical weekly, with me as bondslave-in-chief?

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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