farmer-general

[ fahr-mer-jen-er-uhl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural farm·ers-gen·er·al.

(in France, under the old monarchy) a member of a company of capitalists that farmed certain taxes.

farmer-general

1705–15; translation of French fermier-général

Her husband held the lucrative post of farmer-general to the king, and besides inherited large estates.

The latter, it transpired, was a wealthy farmer-general, who had a fancy for playing the part of Mcenas.

What matters it, since he who was truly a father to her was the farmer-general, Lenormant de Tourneheim.

Bodard lived in the fine house in the Place Vendôme which the farmer-general Dangé had not long since been compelled to quit.

The same officers also attached their own boxes for the receipt of customs to the gates, in lieu of those of the farmer-general.

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