corvee

Example Sentences

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To do so, they resurrected corvée, a 19th-century Haitian law for indentured labor.

From New York Times

Laborers forced into corvée fled their captors and joined the fight.

From New York Times

Anyone who attempted to escape corvée labor was treated like a deserter, and many were shot.

From New York Times

One polity in this nation developed the position of uparaja under Trailokanat and used a corvee system of nai and phrai before it fell to Alaungpaya.

From Slate

He envied those not burdened with “water duty,” or “corvée de l’eau,” as it is referred to here — the trek, and then the lowering of bowls or buckets, by rope, into the deep wells.

From New York Times