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vavasor

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vav⋅a⋅sor

  [vav-uh-sawr, -sohr]
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–noun
(in the feudal system) a vassal ranking just below a baron.
Also, vav⋅a⋅sour  [vav-uh-soor] .

Origin:
1300–50; ME vavasour < OF, perh. contr. of ML vassus vassōrum vassal of vassals; see vassal
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vav·a·sor also vav·a·sour   (vāv'ə-sôr', -sōr', -sŏŏr')   
n.  A feudal tenant who ranked directly below a baron or peer.

[Middle English vavasour, from Old French, from Medieval Latin vavassor, possibly contraction of vassus vassōrum, vassal of vassals : vassus, vassal (from Vulgar Latin *vassus; see vassal) + vassōrum, genitive pl. of vassus, vassal.]
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