corvee 的定义
- unpaid labor for one day, as on the repair of roads, exacted by a feudal lord.
- an obligation imposed on inhabitants of a district to perform services, as repair of roads, bridges, etc., for little or no remuneration.
corvee 近义词
等同于 labor camp
更多corvee例句
- These men she saw now working in the dread corvee had been forced from their homes by a counterfeit Khedivial order.
- It suggested that other slavery, which did not hide itself under the forms of conscription and corvee.
- She thought he was referring obliquely to the corvee and the other thing in which her life-work was involved.
- The seignior pays six sous for food, each corve, on men, and twelve sous on each corvee of four oxen.
- I should have been with Yankling Sahib now but for this cursed beegar (the corvee).