vavasour
- a variation of vavasor.
Example Sentences
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My daughter is young and fair and wise and a damsel of high lineage; and I am a rich vavasour, sprung of a noble house, and my land yieldeth a good thousand pounds each year.
From Tales from the Old French by Various
Of a worshipful vavasour that owned this hold, and of Messire Gawain, King Arthur's nephew, and his mother.
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Evans, Sebastian
The vavasour cometh to meet him, and marvelleth much who he is, for the more part believed that he was one of Aristor's knights.
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Evans, Sebastian
The young knight's name was Messire Guillaume of a sooth, and he abode in that same forest wherein the old vavasour had his stronghold, with its riches and its wide lands.
From Tales from the Old French by Various
The story saith that they sojourned therewithin and that the vavasour showed them much honour.
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Evans, Sebastian
