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ˈvillager
[f. village n. + -er1.]
One who lives in a village; now usually, a working-class inhabitant or native of a village.
1570Levins Manip. 80 A villager, villicus. 1601Shakes. Jul. C. i. ii. 172 Brutus had rather be a Villager, Then to repute himselfe a Sonne of Rome Vnder these hard Conditions. 1634Milton Comus 166 Som harmles Villager Whom thrift keeps up about his Country gear. 1718Rowe tr. Lucan i. 59 No chearful Maid nor Villager is seen. 1752Young Brothers ii. i, Each villager Is queen of her affections. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 47 Vast districts, which the nearest villagers took possession of. 1841Lytton Nt. & Morn. i. i, The desolate parsonage was committed to the charge of one of the villagers. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. IV. i. 314 All Frenchmen, alike townspeople and villagers, were free.
transf.1634W. Wood New Eng. Prosp. (1865) 36 These waterie villagers [= fish] with thousands more, Doe passe and repasse neare the verdant shore.
Hence ˈvillageress, a female villager, a village girl or woman.
1873M. Collins Miranda II. 22 The villageresses were terribly jealous at first. 1894A. d'Heristal Discord. Life 101 She was so indifferent about what the squiresses and villageresses might say about her. |