yeomen
- plural of yeoman.
Example Sentences
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Their style of play was seen to be "clumsy and oafish... like that of medieval yeomen".
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2020
Miscreant yeomen who poached a swan egg, or harassed nesting swans, or — heaven forbid — ate a swan could be punished by a year and a day in jail.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2018
Another has created a visual and acoustic model of John Donne’s 1622 “Gunpowder Plot Sermon” in the courtyard of London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral, complete with archaic English and murmuring yeomen.
From Washington Post ● May 10, 2018
It hardly touched yeomen who grew their own food and owed no money.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
When the portcullis of the outer bailey of the castle was raised to admit the yeomen, the townspeople swarmed in.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
