Meanings
plural vavasours · alternative valvassor · alternative vavassor · alternative vavasor
- historicala subvassal; someone holding their lands from a vassal of the crown rather than from the crown directly
Fiddler’s Green is missing? That is passing strange, Lucien. He is, after all, vavasour of his own dominion. And always so… reliable.
1989, Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg, and Malcolm Jones III, The Doll’s House, The Sandman issue 10
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Medieval Latinvavassor
- Old Frenchvavasour
- Middle Englishvavasour
- Englishvavasour
From Middle English vavasour, from Old French vavasour, from Medieval Latin vavassor, perhaps from vassus vassōrum (“vassal of vassals”).
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