vassale

vassale f (plural vassales)

1. female equivalent of vassal

vassale

1. feminine singular of vassal

• “vassale”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• lavasse

From Middle English vassal, from Old French vassal.

vassale (plural vassalès or vassaals)

1. subject
   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, line 16:

     y'ast, bie ractzom o'honde, ee-delt t'ouz ye laas ee-mate var ercha vassale,

     you have with impartial hand ministered the laws made for every subject,

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 114