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.
   • 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Part IV, chapter 38:

     [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