The Only Use
serf
in
The Great Gatsby
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- Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.†
p. 88.7serfs = Middle Ages Europe: people bound to the land and owned with the land by the feudal lord
Definitions:
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(1)
(serf) Middle Ages Europe: a person who is bound to the land and owned with the land by the feudal lord
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)