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serf

serf [ surf ] (plural serfs)


noun 
Definition:
 
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

2. enslaved laborer: a laborer legally bound to and obliged to serve a lord

[15th century. Via French< Latin servus "slave"]

serf·dom noun
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