- Pittancer
- ♦ An officer of a religious house who had the duty of distributing charitable gifts or allowances of food.(Bennett, H.S. Life on the English Manor: A Study of Peasant Conditions, 1150-1400, 338)
Medieval glossary. 2014.
Pittancer
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