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

The corn-husking corvee, for reasons which do not need elucidation, was of course the most popular of these.

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

Many allusions have been made, in writings on the old regime, to the habitant's corvee or obligation to give his seigneur so many days of free labour in each year.

From The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism by Munro, William Bennett