cottager
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That was not enough to stave off noisy charges that Mulroney was a "cottager," or outsider.
From Time Magazine Archive
Contented account of how the author succeeded in her early ambition to become a Roman Catholic, a Sussex cottager, a prolific novelist.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some years since the wife of a respectable cottager in my neighbourhood died in childbed.
At first he draws a faithful picture of the cottager, the farmer, the gamekeeper, the poacher; the pictures are set in appropriate scenery; by degrees the figures vanish and the setting remains.
From The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies by Besant, Walter, Sir
I was met at the door by a man whose appearance was that of a simple cottager, and his manners indicated all the simplicity of rural life.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various
