roturier

People shrugged their shoulders, and hinted that there was something of the "roturier" in Mr. Dunbar; but they freely acknowledged that he was a fine handsome-looking fellow, and that his daughter was an angel, rendered still more angelic by the earthly advantage of half a million or so for her marriage-portion.

Henry Dunbar A Novel 1875

I think at your age, with your appearance, that your name is worth at least two million francs in the eyes of a rich 'roturier' with an ambitious daughter. "

The Parisians — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

I think at your age, with your appearance, that your name is worth at least two million francs in the eyes of a rich 'roturier' with an ambitious daughter. "

The Parisians — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

This fact shows our British independence and honest feeling — our higher orders are not such mere haughty aristocrats as the ignorant represent them: on the contrary, if a man have money they will hold out their hands to him, eat his dinners, dance at his balls, marry his daughters, or give their own lovely girls to his sons, as affably as your commonest roturier would do.

The History of Pendennis 2006

The whiskers of a roturier, my good Lankin, grow as long as the beard of a Plantagenet.

The Kickleburys on the Rhine 2006

These families, without ever losing sight of their nonnoble roturier background, were in the process of acquiring the attributes and manner of life of the nobility.

Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

These families, without ever losing sight of their nonnoble roturier background, were in the process of acquiring the attributes and manner of life of the nobility.

Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

The provinces were full of roturier families, who for ages had lived as people of property upon their own domains, and paid the taxes.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

So the Canadian peasant, a feudal tenant _en censive_ or _en roture_, yet wished not to be called _censitaire_ or _roturier_, names which he thought degrading; he preferred to be called a habitant, an inhabitant of the country, a free man, not a vassal.

A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 George M. Wrong

For, if he described another Englishman as not being a nobleman, invariably the foreigner would presume it to be meant that he was not a gentleman -- not of the privileged class -- in fact, that he was a plebeian or _roturier_, though very possibly a man every way meritorious by talents or public services.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various