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Etymology
From Old French vavasour#French|vavasour, from mediæval Latin vavassor, perhaps from vassus vassorum ‘vassal of vassals’.

Pronunciation
IPA|/'vævəsʊə/

Noun
en-noun

1. historical a subvassal; someone holding their lands from a vassal of the crown rather than from the crown directly

#:*Late C14: A shirreve hadde he been, and a contour. / Was nowher swich a worthy vavasour. — Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

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