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cottier

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cottier [ˈkɒtɪə]
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) another name for cotter2 [1]
2. (Historical Terms) (in Ireland) a peasant farming a smallholding under cottier tenure (the holding of not more than half an acre at a rent of not more than five pounds a year)
3. another name for cottager [1]
[from Old French cotier; see cote1, coterie]
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Noun1.cottier - a medieval English villein
helot, serf, villein - (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord


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They were chosen for their competence," Cardinal Georges Cottier, papal household theologian and former head of the commission told Reuters after the announcement.
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