vavasour
English
Etymology
From Old French vavasour, from Medieval Latin vavassor, perhaps from vassus vassorum (“vassal of vassals”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvævəsʊə/
Noun
vavasour (plural vavasours)
- (historical) a subvassal; someone holding their lands from a vassal of the crown rather than from the crown directly
- Late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
- A shirreve hadde he been, and a contour. / Was nowher swich a worthy vavasour.
- 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.”
- Late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Old French
Alternative forms
- vavasor
- vavasur
Etymology
Noun
vavasour 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.
- […] And sons with rich subvassals
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