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corvee
noun as in labor camp
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These men she saw now working in the dread corvee had been forced from their homes by a counterfeit Khedivial order.
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It suggested that other slavery, which did not hide itself under the forms of conscription and corvee.
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She thought he was referring obliquely to the corvee and the other thing in which her life-work was involved.
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The seignior pays six sous for food, each corve, on men, and twelve sous on each corvee of four oxen.
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I should have been with Yankling Sahib now but for this cursed beegar (the corvee).
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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