cottager
Americannoun
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a person who lives in a cottage.
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British. Also cottier a rural worker; a laborer on a farm or in a small village.
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a person having a private house at a vacation resort.
noun
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a person who lives in a cottage
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a rural labourer
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a person holidaying in a cottage, esp an owner and seasonal resident of a cottage in a resort area
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history another name for cotter 2
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Contented account of how the author succeeded in her early ambition to become a Roman Catholic, a Sussex cottager, a prolific novelist.
From Time Magazine Archive
That was not enough to stave off noisy charges that Mulroney was a "cottager," or outsider.
From Time Magazine Archive
Juliet remained confounded; while the tender old cottager shed tears, saying that she had never before had so pretty a companion in her life.
From The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny
Why is it that the amateur so often describes the cottager in this "poor but pious" strain?
From The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors by Klickmann, Flora
We have seen a pit in Staffordshire, which hardly gave coal enough to maintain a cottager and his family, for he worked the pit with imperfect machinery—with a half-starved ass applied to a windlass.
From Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. by Knight, Charles
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