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Definition of Corvee
1. Noun. Unpaid labor (as for the maintenance of roads) required by a lord of his vassals in lieu of taxes.
Definition of Corvee
1. n. An obligation to perform certain services, as the repair of roads, for the lord or sovereign.
Definition of Corvee
1. Noun. unpaid labor (especially on roads) due to a feudal lord ¹
2. Noun. labor, especially on roads, in lieu of taxes ¹
3. Noun. (alternative form of corvee) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Corvee
1. an obligation to perform feudal service [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corvee
Literary usage of Corvee
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Egypt by Evelyn Baring Cromer (1908)
"The water could not be placed on the fields unless the mud, which 1 The employment
of the corvee dates from very ancient times. ..."
2. The Seigniorial System in Canada: A Study in French Colonial Policy by William Bennett Munro (1907)
"The public roads of the colony were built, for the most part, by the corvee labor
of the habitants supervised by the seignior or by the captain of militia ..."
3. Critical Miscellanies by John Morley (1877)
"The introduction of the corvee, in the sense in which we have to speak of it,
dates no further back than the beginning of the eighteenth century. ..."
4. Turgot and the Six Edicts by Robert Perry Shepherd (1903)
"To the privileged classes of the kingdom, however, the Edict abolishing the corvee
was the most sinister in all of its aspects, and the most detestable. ..."
5. Inquiry Into Occupation and Administration of Haiti and Santo Domingo by United States Congress. Senate. Select committee on Haiti and Santo Domingo. [from old catalog] (1921)
"All the corvee was worked by the gendarmerie, as far as I know. ... As I say, my
information is all hearsay on the corvee, hecause it all took place hefore ..."
6. Critical Miscellanies by John Morley (1905)
"The evils of the road corvee meanwhile remained patent and indisputable. In England
at the same period, it is true, the country people were obliged to give ..."
7. Diderot and the Encyclopædists by John Morley (1884)
"First the corvee, or feudal rule which forced every unprivileged farmer and
peasant in France to furnish so many days' labour for the maintenance of the ..."
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