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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 villanage
 農奴身份

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Vil·lan·age n.
 1. Feudal Law The state of a villain, or serf; base servitude; tenure on condition of doing the meanest services for the lord.  [In this sense written also villenage, and villeinage.]
    I speak even now as if sin were condemned in a perpetual villanage, never to be manumitted.   --Milton.
    Some faint traces of villanage were detected by the curious so late as the days of the Stuarts.   --Macaulay.
 2. Baseness; infamy; villainy.  [Obs.]
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