Definition of "townsmen" [townsmen]

• Plural form of townsman. (noun)

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• "The voice scissored off words: "It concerns those personnel, sir, whom you recall the townsmen took into custody.""
• "It limited the rights of the lord in calling the townsmen before his court and fining them, and enumerated the taxes which he might exact from the townspeople."
• "He warns Walsingham against yielding to the wishes of "townsmen" at such a critical juncture, for they would look for the like concession at other times."