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Definition of "yoman" []

  • A simplified spelling of yeoman. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "yoman" in a sentence
  • "Such a letter was hardly likely to have come from a yoman he had persecuted."
  • "_ Other two groomes in this office [of Panetry] to help serve the hall, or other lordes, in absence of the yoman, and to cutte trenchours, to make _saltes_, &c."
  • "¶ Also a Marshall muste take hede yf the kynge sende to your souerayne ony message; and yf he send a knyght, receyue hym as a baron; and yf he sende a squyre, receyue hym as a knyght/and yf he sende you a yoman, receyue hym as a squyer/and yf he sende you a grome, receyue hym as a yoman."
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