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cottier (plural cottiers)

1. Someone who lives in a cot or cottage; a cottager.
   • 1870, John Stuart Mill, chapter 1, in The Subjection of Women, 3rd edition, The Modern Library, →ISBN:

     Because a cottier deeply in arrears to his landlord is not industrious, there are people who think that the Irish are naturally idle.

   • 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.

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