yeoman in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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He did a yeoman service to develop the school.
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For 31 days, she performed yeoman service for the warships in the area.
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He idealized the yeoman farmer despite being himself a gentleman plantation owner.
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Each yeoman, then mostly farmers or agricultural workers, was expected to supply his own horse and saddle.
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He rose from a yeoman tenant farmer to a gentleman owner of the mansion house by 1700.
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On the other side of the agricultural coin were the small yeoman farmers.
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Physically, he has all the strength of our best yeoman stock.
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The house at that time stood in 7 acres of land and was one of the most important yeoman houses in the village.
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Many politicians from this era were yeoman farmers speaking out to protect their rights as free men.
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White inhabitants experienced the creation of patriarchial families, the evolution of kinship networks, and the formation of the gentry and yeoman classes.
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