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vavasours

vavasours is the plural 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

Questions about vavasours

What is vavasours the plural of?
Vavasours is the plural of vavasour.

Words near vavasours in the dictionary

  1. vavasor
  2. vavasories
  3. vavasors
  4. vavasory
  5. vavasour
  6. vavasours
  7. vavassor
  8. vavassors
  9. Vavilikolanu
  10. Vavilov
  11. Vavilovian

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