corvee

How To Use corvee In A Sentence

• West of the Rhine, an increasing number of servile manses also had to do ploughing corvées, and the service of three days of work per week was often required from free manses, which had been exempted from it hitherto.
• In the aftermath of defeat in the Seven Years War, Louis XV went as far as to commission projects for the abolition of the corvée and the re-establishment of provincial estates in a bid to restore public support.
• I understand that on the inner sides of certain pyramid stones have been found crude inscriptions left by the citizens or their corvées.
• Je ne l'ai malheureusement regardé qu'aujourd'hui midi puisqu'hier j'étais de corvee de papiers peint, non sans mal ... Pinku-tk Diary Entry
• They may well have been the unwilling victims of the corvée or compulsory labour system, the system that allowed the pharaoh to compel his people to work for three or four month shifts on state projects.
• Since the official repeal of corvée labor in the 1920s, settler employers had faced a dwindling supply of local workers.
• If you can take your eyes off the handsome lads and their underpants for a sec, I'd like to add that the mandatory corvee demanded of French peasants mostly to build roads is considered a major source of discontent leading up to 1789. Corvee - French Word-A-Day
• La faim, les créanciers, _les soldats_, la corvée, Lui font d'un malheureux la peinture achevée. The Roman Question
• If you can take your eyes off the handsome lads and their underpants for a sec, I'd like to add that the mandatory corvee demanded of French peasants (mostly to build roads) is considered a major source of discontent leading up to 1789. Corvee - French Word-A-Day
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