corvee

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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

Military service is the only corvée which the Russian peasants regard with real horror.

From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de

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

A right like the corvée had a sinister meaning.

From A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 by Wrong, George McKinnon

The Intendant of Caen had already proposed to the inhabitants of that district the alternative plan of commuting the corvée into a money payment.

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