Corvee

Word CORVEE
Character 6
Hyphenation cor vee
Pronunciations /ˈkɔːveɪ/

Definitions and meanings of "Corvee"

What do we mean by corvee?

Unpaid labor required by a feudal lord.

Labor, especially for roads or dams, in lieu of taxes.

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The word "corvee" in example sentences

Recruits to the cause were extracted from the so-called corvee (the conscripted labour force), which was made up by the fellahin (the peasantry), and though serving in the corvee was an unappealing activity, conscription into the army was even worse. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If you can take your eyes off the handsome lads and their underpants for a sec, I'd like to add that the mandatory corvee demanded of French peasants (mostly to build roads) is considered a major source of discontent leading up to 1789. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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If you can take your eyes off the handsome lads and their underpants for a sec, I'd like to add that the mandatory corvee demanded of French peasants mostly to build roads is considered a major source of discontent leading up to 1789. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The man's one living son, traveling to market, had fallen foul of a Roman patrol and had been impressed into a corvee for road work. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Je ne l'ai malheureusement regardé qu'aujourd'hui midi puisqu'hier j'étais de corvee de papiers peint, non sans mal ... ❋ Pinku-tk (2006)

The canal was indeed built by what amounted to slavery, the forced labour (corvee) of the Egyptian peasants being enforced by the rawhide whip of the overseers (courbash). ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (2005)

Ben quoi on fait c'qu'on peut dans la vie je suis de corvee de paquet obligatoirement dans l'tas ya les miens de cadeau!! ❋ Pinku-tk (2005)

Now the US wants to establish corvee labor in a society where they have no ability to protect the workers. ❋ Unknown (2004)

We pay our slave laborers the corvee, forced work parties ❋ Unknown (2004)

I rebel as stoutly as I can against this horrible, corvee. ❋ Unknown (2003)

I should have been with Yankling Sahib now but for this cursed beegar [the corvee]. ❋ Unknown (2003)

They were responsible for a land tax, a tribute tax, and military and corvee duties, much like the system in Tang China. ❋ Unknown (2001)

The kitcleaning-it took hours, and then, when you had finished it, your own kit was still to do-was the most detested corvee. ❋ Lewis, C. S. (1955)

So far as a painstaking study of the records can disclose, the corvee obligation was never looked upon as an imposition of any moment. ❋ William Bennett Munro (1916)

Many allusions have been made, in writings on the old regime, to the habitant's corvee or obligation to give his seigneur so many days of free labour in each year. ❋ William Bennett Munro (1916)

The corn-husking corvee, for reasons which do not need elucidation, was of course the most popular of these. ❋ William Bennett Munro (1916)

And when the habitant worked for his seigneur in this way the latter had to furnish him with both food and tools, a requirement which greatly impaired the value of corvee labour from the seigneur's point of view. ❋ William Bennett Munro (1916)

Six days of corvee per year was all that the seigneur could demand; and he usually asked for only three, that is to say, one day each in the seasons of ploughing, seedtime, and harvest. ❋ William Bennett Munro (1916)

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