vavasour
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈvævəsʊə/
vavasour (plural vavasours)
- (historical) a subvassal; someone holding their lands from a vassal of the crown rather than from the crown directly
- Late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
- A shirreve hadde he been, and a contour. / Was nowher swich a worthy vavasour.
- 1989, Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg, and Malcolm Jones III, The Doll’s House, The Sandman issue 10
- “Fiddler’s Green is missing? That is passing strange, Lucien. He is, after all, vavasour of his own dominion. And always so… reliable.”
- Late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
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