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vavasor

vavasor is the alternative spelling 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 vavasor

pluralvavasors

Questions about vavasor

What is vavasor the alternative spelling of?
Vavasor is the alternative spelling of vavasour.

Words near vavasor in the dictionary

  1. vauxite
  2. vav
  3. vav-consecutive
  4. Vav-Tharad
  5. vavangue
  6. vavasor
  7. vavasories
  8. vavasors
  9. vavasory
  10. vavasour
  11. vavasours

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