How To Use Corvee In A Sentence
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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.
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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.
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I understand that on the inner sides of certain pyramid stones have been found crude inscriptions left by the citizens or their corvées.
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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
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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.
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Since the official repeal of corvée labor in the 1920s, settler employers had faced a dwindling supply of local workers.
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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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La faim, les créanciers, _les soldats_, la corvée, Lui font d'un malheureux la peinture achevée.
The Roman Question
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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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Corvee - French Word-A-Day
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Sometimes, as in Mecklenburg, Prussia, or Sweden, they prevented their serfs from weaving or smelting iron, in order to protect their sources of agricultural corvée labour.
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Chu States corvee aim to reinforce national military strength while its farm tax aim to strengthen national economic strength.
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Ben quoi on fait c'qu'on peut dans la vie je suis de corvee de paquet obligatoirement dans l'tas ya les miens de cadeau!!
Pinku-tk Diary Entry
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_corvée_, that is to say, an unfixed amount of ploughing, which the steward could demand every week when it was needed; the distinction corresponds to the distinction between _week work_ and _boon work_ in the later Middle Ages.
Medieval People
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Without the subsidy of conquest, documentary sources tell us, taxes slowly crept up, labour corvées became longer, and arbitrary requisitions were more frequent.
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The corvée, forced labour for road construction and maintenance, took hands away from the fields for substantial periods every year; and when, under Louis XVI, it began to be commuted, the cost was added to the tax-bill.
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Corvées of ploughing and long-distance cartage were the most durable elements of the manorial system and were the services most wanted by the lord.
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Thus the landlords retained their old labour services without the traditional obligations of a seigneur, while the peasants continued to do their corvée with very little to show in the way of landownership.
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To meet the expenses of the great wars on which he was constantly engaged he had to impose taxation which, even if levied by more regular methods, was almost as crushing as the unregulated spoliation under the Mamelukes, and gradually his Mudirs and Mamours and Omdehs had to have recourse to the same methods as the revenue-farmers in the Mameluke days to screw the last piastre out of the helpless fellaheen, whilst recruitment for the armies which demanded incessant reinforcements became an even worse terror than the kurbash of the tax collector and the interminable corvées.
The Egyptian Problem
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Now the US wants to establish corvee labor in a society where they have no ability to protect the workers.
THE NEWS BLOG
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The canal was indeed built by what amounted to slavery, the forced labour (corvee) of the Egyptian peasants being enforced by the rawhide whip of the overseers (courbash).
Flashman on the March
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Thus the landlords retained their old labour services without the traditional obligations of a seigneur, while the peasants continued to do their corvée with very little to show in the way of landownership.
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The fun way to learn French corvée (kor vay) noun, feminine
French Word-A-Day:
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Recruits to the cause were extracted from the so-called corvee (the conscripted labour force), which was made up by the fellahin (the peasantry), and though serving in the corvee was an unappealing activity, conscription into the army was even worse.
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He proposed to abandon controls on the grain trade, abolish internal customs barriers, and commute the corvée into a tax where this had not already happened.
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The list was a transection of Egyptian society: governors, judges, bankers, merchants, civil servants, policemen, butchers, and fellahin who, indentured to their own government by the Corvée, sent their slaves to the Suez Canal works as substitute laborers.
Three Empires on the Nile
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It's past population statistics are the result of registration for corvée and, later, for poll-tax, and can give evidence only of broad trends.
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The man's one living son, traveling to market, had fallen foul of a Roman patrol and had been impressed into a corvee for road work.
Evan Eisenberg: Mary Christ (Part 2)
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In the ninth century, networks, based on corvées of transportation, around and to domanial centres, can be documented in the heartland of Francia and northern Italy.
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It is not known whether that work was undertaken by the free decision of those mountain dwellers or by the local communal authority that imposed corvées on them during winter when work in the fields was minimal.
