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  • I got angry and told him he was still a peasant and then he left.  (source)
    peasant = people of low income and low social standing
  • It was at this shop, working like a peasant, that I met Clifford St. Clair.  (source)
    peasant = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country:  a person of low income, education, and social standing
  • "I am a peasant," I said to myself, "and not a geisha at all any longer."  (source)
    peasant = a person of low income, education, and social standing
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  • ...he said angrily (unaware of the irony that he, a prince, had a right to anger, and the old man, a peasant, did not).  (source)
    peasant = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country:  a person of low income, education, and social standing
  • Now I see peasants in the field.  (source)
    peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country:  people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
  • He'd leave peasant huts full of malnourished babies and, arriving in Miami Airport, overhear well-dressed people talk about their efforts to lose weight.  (source)
    peasant = used historically and sometimes in relation to a very poor country:  a person of low income, education, and social standing -- especially one who raises crops or livestock
  • Not many intellectuals are prepared to shovel manure with the peasants and then go home and write a "little book" called War and Peace.  (source)
    peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country:  people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
  • ...Detering, a peasant, who thinks of nothing but his farm-yard and his wife;  (source)
    peasant = uneducated farmer
  • Several other travellers were before them on the bridge, mostly peasants driving laden donkeys and mules or carrying baskets on their heads.  (source)
    peasants = persons of low income, education, and social standing  (used historically to primarily describe those who raised crops or livestock)
  • He was disguised as a woman, and appeared to be a simple old peasant goodwife.  (source)
    peasant = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country:  a person of low income, education, and social standing
  • Is the land there owned by the peasants?  (source)
    peasants = poor farmers
  • Can a Russian peasant be said to feel, in comparison with an educated man?  (source)
    peasant = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country:  people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
  • Oh, you know the stories that the peasants tell about a phantom hound, and so on.  (source)
    peasants = a person of low income, education, and social standing -- especially one who raises crops or livestock
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