plural of cottar; multiple Scottish or Irish farm laborers or tenant farmers living in small cottages with minimal rights.
Plural form of 'cottar', maintaining the Scottish/Irish terminology for rural peasant laborers tied to specific land holdings.
The history of cottars is woven into the Highland Clearances of Scotland, where entire communities of cottars were forcibly removed from their homes to make way for sheep pastures—one of history's great injustices.
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