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VASSALAGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does vassalage mean?
• VASSALAGE (noun)
The noun VASSALAGE has 1 sense:
1. the state of a serf
Familiarity information: VASSALAGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state of a serf
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("vassalage" is a kind of...):
bondage; slavery; thraldom; thrall; thralldom (the state of being under the control of another person)
Context examples
I was a discord in Gateshead Hall: I was like nobody there; I had nothing in harmony with Mrs. Reed or her children, or her chosen vassalage.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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