roturier

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roturier

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Borrowed from Middle French roturier.

noun roturiers

A commoner or plebeian; a person of low rank; especially, in pre-Revolutionary France, a member of the social class comprising all who were not nobles or clergy. ‘This fellow has imbibed all the insolent consequence of those among whom he had lived; and, though roturier himself, conceives, that he derives from the honour of being the idle valet to a nobleman, a right to despise and trample on the honest man who draws his subsistence from the ground by indepe

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"roturier." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/roturier. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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"roturier." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/roturier.

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@misc{roturier_2026,
  title = {roturier},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/roturier},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}