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a member of a class of persons, as in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, who are small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank.
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a fortified, usually walled residence, as of a prince or noble in feudal times.
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distinguished by rank or title.pertaining to persons so distinguished.
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a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of printing.
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a person who buys and sells commodities for profit; dealer; trader.
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any covering worn as a defense against weapons.
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a man who has withdrawn from the world for religious reasons, especially as a member of an order of cenobites living according to a particular rule and under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
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a deep, wide trench, usually filled with water, surrounding the rampart of a fortified place, as a town or a castle.
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the feudal system, or its principles and practices.
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a person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord's land and transferred with it from one owner to another.
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a fee or feud held of a feudal lord; tenure of land subject to feudal obligations.
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a combat in which two knights on horseback attempted tounhorse each other with blunted lances
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a person granted the use of land, inreturn for rendering homage, fealty, and usually military service or its equivalent to a lord or other superior; feudal tenant.
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a person who has authority, control, or power over others; a master, chief, or ruler.
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a landed estate or territorial unit, originally of the nature of a feudal lordship, consisting of a lord's demesne and of lands within which he has the right to exercise certain privileges, exact certain fees, etc.
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