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‖ roture|rɔtyr|
[F., app.:—L. ruptūra breaking, rupture: see Littré.]
1. Plebeian tenure.
1682Warburton Hist. Guernsey (1822) 89 This division is to be understood of estates that are in roture. 1818Hallam Mid. Ages (1868) 106 A nobleman might, and often did, hold estates in roture, as well as a roturier acquire a fief.
2. Plebeian rank.
1795Helen M. Williams Lett. France I. 194 The period was still remembered when a round cap was the badge of roture. 1882Encycl. Brit. XIV. 177/1 He himself always signed the name Delabruyère in one word, thus avowing his roture. |