All 6 Uses of
peasant
in
Franny and Zooey
- Some Russian peasant, apparently.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- He just tells you he's a peasant and that he's thirty-three years old and that he's got a withered arm.†
Chpt 1.2
- I mean it starts out with this peasant—the pilgrim—wanting to find out what it means in the Bible when it says you should pray incessantly.†
Chpt 1.2
- Well, as I said, the pilgrim—this simple peasant—started the whole pilgrimage to find out what it means in the Bible when it says you're supposed to pray without ceasing.†
Chpt 1.2
- "Both books are about a Russian peasant, around the turn of the century," he said, in what was, for his implacably matter-of-fact voice, a rather narrative tone.†
Chpt 2.2
- In the beginning, the little peasant tells you, he had a wife and a farm.†
Chpt 2.2
Definition:
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(peasant) 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