Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A vassal who paid homage to a feudal lord.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who does or is bound to do homage; one who holds land of another by homage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who does homage, or holds land of another by homage; a vassal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun one who pays (or already did so)
feudal homage, hence avassal
Etymologies
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homage + -er
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Examples
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Weopomeiocs, in a full council of his people is said to have acknowledged himself the homager of the Queen of England, and, after her, of Sir Walter
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Here Okisko, king of the Weopomeiocs, in a full council of his people, is said to have acknowledged himself the homager of the Queen of England, and, after her, of Sir Walter Raleigh.
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Here Okisko, king of the Weopomeiocs, in a full council of his people, is said to have acknowledged himself the homager of the Queen of England, and, after her, of Sir Walter Raleigh.
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42: Is Caesars homager: else so thy cheeke payes shame,
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