vassal
附庸,附庸国,臣子,附庸风雅
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Definitions
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- : a person granted the use of land, in return for rendering homage, fealty, and usually military service or its equivalent to a lord or other superior; feudal tenant.
- : a person holding some similar relation to a superior; a subject, subordinate, follower, or retainer.
- : a servant or slave.
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- : of, relating to, or characteristic of a vassal.
- : having the status or position of a vassal.
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Examples
Paola Dionisotti as Lady Anya Waynwood Lady Anya Waynwood is the head of House Waynwood, a powerful vassal to House Arryn.
Which, according to party orthodoxy, would have been an economically backward, single-ideology vassal state of the Soviet Union.
I have dared to relate this to your Majesty because of my zeal as a loyal vassal, and as one who looks at things dispassionately.
As vassal of the Crown and prince of the blood, Conde was bound to obey the summons of his sovereign.
After all he was a Moslem, and a Turkish vassal, and a consistent contemner of Russians, so wherefore should he stand aside?
Each of these vassal states was made to pay handsomely for its new acquisitions.
I loved you from the first—not like a vassal either—and will always love you.