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 • May 20, 2022

Mr. Burbidge secured one, a Grammatophyllum, ‘as big as a Pickford’s van,’ which a corvée of Dyaks could not lift.

From The Woodlands Orchids by Boyle, Frederick

Their arrangement in horizontal courses or grouping at stated intervals, into those lines of battlements with which every wall was crowned, was done by the men of the corvée.

From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Armstrong, Walter, Sir

They want us to pay some of the taxes—the corvée or the taille.

From Petticoat Rule by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

It was calculated that a contractor would have provided and maintained fine roads for little more than one-third of the cost at which the corvée furnished roads that were execrable.

From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot by Morley, John