Usually means: Subordinate feudal lord; lesser noble.
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  1. vavasour: Merriam-Webster
  2. vavasour: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. vavasour: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Vavasour: Wordnik
  5. vavasour: Wiktionary
  6. vavasour: Dictionary.com
  7. Vavasour (family), Vavasour: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. vavasour: FreeDictionary.org
  9. vavasour: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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▸ noun:  (historical) a subvassal; someone holding their lands from a vassal of the crown rather than from the crown directly

Similar:
vassalship, vassal state, vassalry, viscounty, viscountship, suzerain, vicereine, underking, lord, viceregal, more...

Opposite:
serf, peasant, commoner

Adjectives:
worthy, poor, young, old, such, own, hapless, dear, rich, fourfooted, warre

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Similar:
vassalship, vassal state, vassalry, viscounty, viscountship, suzerain, vicereine, underking, lord, viceregal, more...

Opposite:
serf, peasant, commoner

Adjectives:
worthy, poor, young, old, such, own, hapless, dear, rich, fourfooted, warre



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