cottager
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Contented account of how the author succeeded in her early ambition to become a Roman Catholic, a Sussex cottager, a prolific novelist.
From Time Magazine Archive
That was not enough to stave off noisy charges that Mulroney was a "cottager," or outsider.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is a widespread story of a fairy woman who begs a cottager not to throw water out at the doorstep, as it falls down her chimney.
From Ulster Folklore by Elizabeth Andrews
In the autumn after the harvest the gleaning is still an important time to the cottager, though nothing like it used to be.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Richard Jefferies
I was met at the door by a man whose appearance was that of a simple cottager, and his manners indicated all the simplicity of rural life.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various
