vavasour

Etymology
From, from , from , perhaps from.

Noun

 * 1)  a subvassal; someone holding their lands from a vassal of the crown rather than from the crown directly
 * 2) * 1989, Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg, and Malcolm Jones III, The Doll’s House, The Sandman issue 10
 * “Fiddler’s Green is missing? That is passing strange, Lucien. He is, after all, vavasour of his own dominion. And always so… reliable.”

Etymology
From, from , perhaps from.

Noun

 * , subvassal
 * 1) * Late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
 * A shirreve hadde he been, and a contour. / Was nowher swich a worthy vavasour.

Etymology
From.