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| serf [ surf ] (plural serfs) |
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1. medieval farmworker: an agricultural worker, especially in feudal Europe, who cultivated land belonging to a landowner, and who was bought and sold with the land
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2. enslaved laborer: a laborer legally bound to and obliged to serve a lord
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| [15th century. Via French< Latin servus "slave"] |
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  serf·dom noun |
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