serf
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The opening ensembles transported the audience back in time amid contemporary fusions, channeling the essence of a serf, the medieval agricultural laborer.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2024
It has also accused the Dalai Lama of spearheading a failed uprising in 1959 in order to "preserve the theocratic serf system".
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2023
When I read her work, I imagine Monty Python’s oppressed serf calling out, “there’s some lovely filth down here,” gleefully harvesting a great big pile of squelching sludge.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2022
They were Old Believers, and relatively new money: Their great-grandfather was a serf who bought his freedom with his wife’s dowry of five rubles.
From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2021
The serf of chivalry was not a slave for whom there was no hope.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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