vavasor

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There can nothing be said of the harness because of the dire poverty with which the vavasor was afflicted.

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  1. noun A feudal tenant who ranked directly below a baron or peer.

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  • Riding slowly down the line he marked with attentive gaze the camp of the crossbowmen, the muster of the German mercenaries, the numbers of the foot-soldiers, the arms of every proud vassal or vavasor which might give some guide as to the power of each division. —  Sir Nigel
  • She places the lance in his hand, and when he had grasped it by the butt-end, he thus addressed the gentle vavasor: "Fair sire," quoth he, "if you please, make your daughter ready now; for I wish to escort her to the sparrow-hawk in accordance with our agreement." —  Four Arthurian Romances
  • There can nothing be said of the harness because of the dire poverty with which the vavasor was afflicted. —  Four Arthurian Romances
  • Ladies and knights were gathered there, and the vavasor was glad at heart. —  Four Arthurian Romances
  • 1320-1352.) Erec thus addressed the vavasor: "Fair host, fair friend, fair sire! —  Four Arthurian Romances
 

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  1. Middle English vavasour, from Old French, from Medieval Latin vavassor, possibly contraction of vassus vassōrum, vassal of vassals : vassus, vassal (from Vulgar Latin *vassus; see vassal) + vassōrum, genitive pl. of vassus, vassal.
 

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/ˈvævəsər, sur/
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