vavasourとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Old French vavasour, from Medieval Latin vavassor, perhaps from vassus vassōrum (“vassal of vassals”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈvævəsʊə/

名詞

vavasour (複数形 vavasours)

1. (historical) a subvassal; someone holding their lands from a vassal of the crown rather than from the crown directly
   • 1989, Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg, and Malcolm Jones III, The Doll’s House, The Sandman issue 10

     “Fiddler’s Green is missing? That is passing strange, Lucien. He is, after all, vavasour of his own dominion. And always so… reliable.”