serfs
Example Sentences
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Serfs were required to leave the farms on which they had always lived.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
Fat White Family’s 2019 album Serfs Up! ruminates on the middle-class trappings sold to us by the ideology of social mobility.
From The Guardian • Oct. 14, 2020
The Serfs ploughed and planted endlessly and there was a lot of chatter about strip farming and tithes.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 17, 2018
Serfs, the bulk of the population, lived at the bottom of the chain of feudal relationships.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2016
Serfs they were now in these old fastnesses of theirs to the English folk of the Lindiswaras, who had won their land and called it after their own name, Lindsey.
From Havelok the Dane A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)
