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vavasour Tweet Definition of vavasour Like Definition of vavasour on Facebook
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 . " Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Etymology: From Old French vavasourFrench, vavasour, from mediíval Latin vavassor, perhaps from vassus vassorum "vassal of vassals".

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