bondslave
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Noun
bondslave (plural bondslaves)
- One who works as a slave under an indenture; a bondsman or bondswoman.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- To whom they shewed, how those marchants were / Arriv'd in place their bondslaves for to buy […].