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peasantry
noun
(
peasantr, ies
)
(
historical
) Impoverished rural farm workers, either as serfs, small freeholders or hired hands.
1920
They distressed her. They were so stolid. She had always maintained that there is no American , and she sought now to defend her faith by seeing imagination and enterprise in the young Swedish farmers, and in a traveling man working over his order-blanks. But the older people, Yankees as well as Norwegians, Germans, Finns, Canucks, had settled into submission to poverty. They were peasants, she groaned.
" Sinclair Lewis, ''Main Street",
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Chapter 3.
An ignorant person of the lowest social status; bumpkins, rustics.
1885
Such strange lingering echoes of the old demon worship might perhaps even now be caught by the diligent listener among the gray-haired ; for the rude mind with difficulty associates the ideas of power and benignity.
" George Eliot,
Silas Marner
,
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Chapter 1.
Translations:
Spanish: campesinado
Etymology:
Middle English paissaunt
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