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cottier en · NOUN

Etymology

From Old French cotier. See coterie, and compare cotter.

Meanings

1. Someone who lives in a cot or cottage; a cottager.
   • Because a cottier deeply in arrears to his landlord is not industrious, there are people who think that the Irish are naturally idle. 1870, John Stuart Mill, chapter 1, in The Subjection of Women, 3rd edition, The Modern Library, →ISBN:
   • [W]hat he objects to giving, is a little return on rent-days to help a tenant to buy stock, or an outlay on repairs to keep the weather out at a tenant's barn-door or make his house look a little less like an Irish cottier's. 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 38, in Middlemarch […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book IV:

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Deriveds

cottierism