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corvée
[ kawr-vey ]
noun
- unpaid labor for one day, as on the repair of roads, exacted by a feudal lord.
- an obligation imposed on inhabitants of a district to perform services, as repair of roads, bridges, etc., for little or no remuneration.
corvée
/ ˈkɔːveɪ /
noun
- European history a day's unpaid labour owed by a feudal vassal to his lord
- the practice or an instance of forced labour
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of corvée1
C14: from Old French, from Late Latin corrogāta contribution, from Latin corrogāre to collect, from rogāre to ask
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Example Sentences
These men she saw now working in the dread corvee had been forced from their homes by a counterfeit Khedivial order.
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It suggested that other slavery, which did not hide itself under the forms of conscription and corvee.
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She thought he was referring obliquely to the corvee and the other thing in which her life-work was involved.
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The seignior pays six sous for food, each corve, on men, and twelve sous on each corvee of four oxen.
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I should have been with Yankling Sahib now but for this cursed beegar (the corvee).
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