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ǰé
[ kawr-vey ]
noun
- unpaid labor for one day, as on the repair of roads, exacted by a feudal lord.
- an obligation imposed on inhabitants of a district to perform services, as repair of roads, bridges, etc., for little or no remuneration.
ǰé
/ ˈɔːɪ /
noun
- European history a day's unpaid labour owed by a feudal vassal to his lord
- the practice or an instance of forced labour
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Origin of ǰé1
C14: from Old French, from Late Latin ǰDzٲ contribution, from Latin ǰDz to collect, from Dzre to ask
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To do so, they resurrected ǰé, a 19th-century Haitian law for indentured labor.
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Laborers forced into ǰé fled their captors and joined the fight.
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Anyone who attempted to escape ǰé labor was treated like a deserter, and many were shot.
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One polity in this nation developed the position of uparaja under Trailokanat and used a corvee system of nai and phrai before it fell to Alaungpaya.
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He envied those not burdened with “water duty,” or “ǰé de l’eau,” as it is referred to here — the trek, and then the lowering of bowls or buckets, by rope, into the deep wells.
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