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vavasor

[ vav-uh-sawr, -sohr ]

noun

  1. (in the feudal system) a vassal ranking just below a baron.


vavasor

/ ˈvævəˌsʊə; ˈvævəˌsɔː /

noun

  1. (in feudal society) the noble or knightly vassal of a baron or great lord who also has vassals himself Alsovavassor
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of vavasor1

1300–50; Middle English vavasour < Old French, perhaps contraction of Medieval Latin vassus vassōrum vassal of vassals; vassal
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Word History and Origins

Origin of vavasor1

C13: from Old French vavasour, perhaps contraction of Medieval Latin vassus vassōrum vassal of vassals; see vassal
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Example Sentences

Alice Vavasor asks herself, “What should a woman do with her life?”

From Slate

Along the way, their lives intertwine with�among a hundred or so others�a headstrong early feminist, Alice Vavasor, and her rascally cousin George; a young radical M.P. from Ireland, Phineas Finn; and a mistreated wife, Lady Laura Kennedy, who flees from her cruel husband, a rich Scottish baron.

To begin with, it is certain that such names as Pope, Cayzer, King, Earl, Bishop are nicknames, very often conferred on performers in religious plays or acquired in connection with popular festivals and processions— "Names also have been taken of civil honours, dignities and estate, as King, Duke, Prince, Lord, Baron, Knight, Valvasor or Vavasor, Squire, Castellon, partly for that their ancestours were such, served such, acted such parts; or were Kings of the Bean, Christmas-Lords, etc."

This widow, Maude, daughter of Robert le Vavasor of Denton, was given up to her father, who, buying the right of marrying her at a price of 1200 marks and two palfreys, gave her to Fulk fitz-Warine.

The thing had come so suddenly upon George Vavasor that there was not time for him to carry on his further operations through his sister.

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