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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
serf/sɜːf/

▶noun (in the feudal system) an agricultural labourer who was tied to working on his lord's estate.

– derivatives
serfage noun,
serfdom noun.

– origin C15 (in the sense ‘slave’): from OFr., from L. servus ‘slave’.

'serf' also found in these Oxford entries:

bondage - bondsman - freeman - helot

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