Corvée

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(n., formal)

A tax or rent of service owed to a lord by a vassal. Corvée may be limited to a predetermined routine, such as the monthly collection of graft from local drug dealers, or it may be a number of nights of servitude due every month, involving any errand or mission the lord devises each term. Tonight, the grammar surrounding this word is quite confused; all of these are common uses: “to corvée,” “to perform (his) corvée,” “to pay a corvée,” “to do corvée.” “Go down to Ashton Park and break up the Acolyte rituals there, get them off my ground, and we’ll count this as the first night of your corvée.”