vavasour

• And it is important to notice that she repeated word for word what had been said seventy-five years earlier, not far from Vaucouleurs, by a peasant of Champagne who was a vavasour, that is, a freeman. —  The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2
• The vavasour was right glad of his death for the great felony that he had in him, and for that needs must the damsel die in less than a year and she had espoused him XI When Perceval had been therein as long as it pleased him, he thanked the vavasour much of the honour he had done him and his sister, and departed, he and his sister along with him on the mule whereon she had been brought thither. —  The High History of the Holy Graal
• Duke; "and thou must answer to me for treason in provoking quarrel and feud with my own fourfooted vavasour." —  Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 09
• "Of a worshipful vavasour that owned this hold, and of Messire Gawain, —  The High History of the Holy Graal
• "Sir," saith the vavasour, "Welcome may you be!" —  The High History of the Holy Graal

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