cottier

See also: Cottier

English

Etymology

From Old French cotier. See coterie, and compare cotter.

Noun

cottier (plural cottiers)

1. Someone who lives in a cot or cottage; a cottager.
   • 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 38, in Middlemarch […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book IV:

     [W]hat he objects to giving, is a little return on rent-days to help a tenant to buy stock, or an outlay on repairs to keep the weather out at a tenant's barn-door or make his house look a little less like an Irish cottier's.

Derived terms

• cottierism