corvee
Example Sentences
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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 • Apr. 9, 2013
These works were constructed by a general corvee or levy en masse, each family being required to provide one able-bodied man, and the whole of the army was also employed on this public undertaking.
From China by Boulger, Demetrius Charles
Six days of corvee per year was all that the seigneur could demand; and he usually asked for only three, that is to say, one day each in the seasons of ploughing, seedtime, and harvest.
From The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism by Munro, William Bennett
So far as a painstaking study of the records can disclose, the corvee obligation was never looked upon as an imposition of any moment.
From The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism by Munro, William Bennett
The seignior pays six sous for food, each corv�e, on men, and twelve sous on each corvee of four oxen.
From The Ancient Regime by Durand, John
