Both Uses of
serf
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- They even whisper that because he has slain Monseigneur, and because Monseigneur was the father of his tenants—serfs—what you will—he will be executed as a parricide.†
Chpt 2.15serfs = Middle Ages Europe: people bound to the land and owned with the land by the feudal lord
- A serf!†
Chpt 3.10 *serf = Middle Ages Europe: a person who is bound to the land and owned with the land by the feudal lord