roturier
noun
a person of low rank; plebeian.
roturiers
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pluralof roturier.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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 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
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
