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English
Etymology
From Middle English vavasour, from Old French vavasour, from Medieval Latin vavassor, perhaps from vassus vassōrum (“vassal of vassals”).
Pronunciation
Noun
vavasour (plural vavasours)
- (historical) a subvassal; someone holding their lands from a vassal of the crown rather than from the crown directly
- 1989, Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg, and Malcolm Jones III, The Doll’s House, The Sandman issue 10
- “Fiddler’s Green is missing? That is passing strange, Lucien. He is, after all, vavasour of his own dominion. And always so… reliable.”
Translations
Middle English
Etymology
From Old French vavasour, from Medieval Latin vavassor, perhaps from vassus vassōrum (“vassal of vassals”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vavəˈsuːr/, /ˈvavəsur/
Noun
vavasour (plural vavasours)
- vavasour, subvassal
- Late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
- A shirreve hadde he been, and a contour. / Was nowher swich a worthy vavasour.
Descendants
References
Old French
Etymology
From Medieval Latin vavassor.
Noun
vavasour oblique singular, m (oblique plural vavasours, nominative singular vavasours, nominative plural vavasour)
- vavasour
12th Century, Béroul, Tristan et Iseut: Et filz a riches vavasors
Qui servoient por armes tuit.- And sons with rich subvassals
Who gave everyone arms.
Descendants