roturier
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roturiers
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Désirée, our femme-de-chambre, before she came to us, lived in a wealthy roturier family.
From Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 by Various
The age of the roturier had been the climacteric of France.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 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
The whiskers of a roturier, my good Lankin, grow as long as the beard of a Plantagenet.
From The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh by William Makepeace Thackeray
Few men of his stamp indulge in the weakness of railing at Fortune, which is the privilege and consolation of the roturier.
From Sword and Gown A Novel by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence
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
Her object seems to be to deliver patents of nobility to all these roturiers of the drama; and each of these patents under the great seal is a speech.
From Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations by Charles William Eliot
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
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
The rest of the nation, apart from the ecclesiastics, consisted of the roturiers, who were not subject to the disabilities of the serfs, but had not the privileges of the nobility.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 8 "France" to "Francis Joseph I." by Various
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