Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The tenure of the fee held by a vavasor.
  • noun Lands held by a vavasor.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Feud. Law) The quality or tenure of the fee held by a vavasor; also, the lands held by a vavasor.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun law, obsolete The quality or tenure of the fee held by a vavasor.
  • noun law, obsolete The lands held by a vavasor.

Etymologies

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French vavassorie.

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Examples

  • The middle thane was feudal, but not honorary; he was also called a vavasor, and his lands a vavasory, which held of some mesne lord, and not immediately of the King.

    The Commonwealth of Oceana James Harrington 1644

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