villein 的定义
- a member of a class of partially free persons under the feudal system, who were serfs with respect to their lord but had the rights and privileges of freemen with respect to others.
villein 近义词
等同于 peasant
villein 的近义词 16 个
等同于 serf
等同于 farmer
更多villein例句
- After the Norman invasion the name of Villein, a person attached to the villa, was given to the serfs.
- A case still more familiar to most readers is that of the word villain or villein.
- "I very much would like to see a villein drown," cried a lad of eleven years, son of the Sire of Bourgeuil.
- The villein took the cruel blow without wince or cry, as one to whom stripes are a birthright and an inheritance.
- The villein regardant might be severed from the manor, with or without land, and would then become a villein in gross.