roturiers
roturiers is the plural of roturier.
Meaning of roturier
Noun
roturier (plural roturiers)
- A commoner or plebeian; a person of low rank; especially, in pre-Revolutionary France, a member of the social class comprising all who were not nobles or clergy.
- ‘This fellow has imbibed all the insolent consequence of those among whom he had lived; and, though roturier himself, conceives, that he derives from the honour of being the idle valet to a nobleman, a right to despise and trample on the honest man who draws his subsistence from the ground by...1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 128
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- What is roturiers the plural of?
- Roturiers is the plural of roturier.
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