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▪ I. ˈvillan
Also 6–7, 9 villane.
[ad. med.L. villān-us villager, etc., f. L. villa villa.]
1. Hist. A villein; an occupier of land in the feudal vill.
1552Huloet, Villan, seruus,..uillanus. 1570Levins Manip. 19 Villane, verna. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. 98 Gif ane over-lord causes marie the heires of his vassall, being in his custodie, with villans (or bondmen) or Burgesses, quhereby the heires are disparaged [etc.]. 1699Temple Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) 255 What Stock they were possessed of, and how many Villans upon their respective Estates. 1809Bawdwen Domesday Bk. 9 There are only two villanes there and four bordars having one plough and a half. 1851T. H. Turner Dom. Archit. I. iii. 105 To these woods [at Osterley, Middlesex] resorted moreover all lawless men, fugitive villans, and persons of the like description.
†2. A villager, a peasant. Obs.
1685Hedges Diary (Hakl. Soc.) I. 208 Vineyards stored with excellent good grapes, which the villanes carry every night to sell at Shirash.
▪ II. villan
obs. f. villain. |