The status of the helots in the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta resembled that of the medieval serfs.

Like... like a medieval serf finding a starship.

Indeed, members of the alipin class who owned their own houses were more accurately equivalent to medieval European serfs and commoners.

You're talking like a medieval serf, asking the first agnostic whether he worships God or the Devil.

When a fatuous American employee learned that his daughter had just given birth, she treated him with an obsequious servility that would make medieval serfs resemble Nat Turner.

Do wish to live the life of a medieval serf?

The old man sounded more like a medieval serf than a well-informed citizen of a democracy.

It is semi-feudal; people who are not related to the ruling families by blood or marriage are essentially property, like medieval serfs.

The average Man or Woman of 1997 will be as obsolete in 2007 as the medieval serf is now.

Modern life requires us to place more faith in things understood for us than was asked of a medieval serf.