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used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: a person of low income, education, and social standing — especially one who raises crops or livestock
- I must not forget that these coarsely-clad little peasants are of flesh and blood as good as the scions of gentlest genealogy; and that the germs of native excellence, refinement, intelligence, kind feeling, are as likely to exist in their hearts as in those of the best-born.Chapter 31 (7% in)
There are no more uses of "peasant" in Jane Eyre.
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