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valvassor

valvassor is the alternative form of vavasour.

Meaning of vavasour

Noun

vavasour (plural vavasours)

  1. (historical) a subvassal; someone holding their lands from a vassal of the crown rather than from the crown directly
    • Fiddler’s Green is missing? That is passing strange, Lucien. He is, after all, vavasour of his own dominion. And always so… reliable.1989, Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg, and Malcolm Jones III, The Doll’s House, The Sandman issue 10

Forms of valvassor

pluralvalvassors

Questions about valvassor

What is valvassor the alternative form of?
Valvassor is the alternative form of vavasour.

Words near valvassor in the dictionary

  1. Valvano
  2. Valvanos
  3. valvar
  4. valvasor
  5. valvasors
  6. valvassor
  7. valvassors
  8. valvate
  9. valvated
  10. valvately
  11. valvatid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: valvassor (page history and authors); vavasour (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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