roturier
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roturiers
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"O, Heaven forbid we should come on that topic!—No, no, equal both—both on the table-land of gentility, and qualified to look down on every roturier in Scotland."
From The Antiquary — Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott
Désirée, our femme-de-chambre, before she came to us, lived in a wealthy roturier family.
From Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 by Various
"Why," said the French minister, "you understand that the English /gentilhomme/ does not require a De or a title to distinguish him from the /roturier/."
From Ernest Maltravers — Volume 02 by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
If my uncle behaves like a roturier, it is because his mind is gone.
From Fort Amity by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
The age of the roturier had been the climacteric of France.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various
The middling classes, who, from their habitual intercourse with the lower orders, possess so great an influence over the body of the people, were considered by the commissioners as a rabble multitude of upstart "roturiers."
From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I by Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron Fleury de Chaboulon
Certain rules of civil and criminal procedure also distinguished nobles from roturiers.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 8 "France" to "Francis Joseph I." by Various
This had been brought about especially by the agency of the custom by which serfs had been transformed into roturiers.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 8 "France" to "Francis Joseph I." by Various
But on that evening roturiers were in demand—popularity was every thing; the bourgeoisie of Versailles were polished by their friction against the garde du corps.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various
The roturiers, or villeins who were not in a state of thraldom, were already a numerous class not only in the towns but in the country.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 8 "France" to "Francis Joseph I." by Various
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