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| cor·vée [ kawr váy, káwr vày ] (plural cor·vées) |
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1. feudal service: in feudal times, a day of unpaid labor required of a serf for a manorial lord
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2. service for government: a period of labor formerly sometimes required by a state in lieu of taxes, especially in pre-Revolutionary France
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| [14th century. Via French< Latin corrogata, past participle of corrogare "summon together" < rogare "ask"] |
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