All 6 Uses of
peasant
in
The Sun Also Rises
- They were peasants going up into the hills.†
Book 2.11peasants = 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
- and watched the motorbuses come in and unload peasants from the country coming in to the market,
Book 2.14 *
- We sat in the white wicker chairs on the terrasse of the café and watched the motor-buses come in and unload peasants from the country coming in to the market, and we watched the buses fill up and start out with peasants sitting with their saddle-bags full of the things they had bought in the town.†
Book 2.14
- The peasants were in the outlying wine-shops.†
Book 2.15
- You did not see them again except as sport clothes, odd-looking at a table among the closely packed peasants in black smocks.†
Book 2.18
- Nurses in uniform and in peasant costume walked under the trees with children.†
Book 3.19
Definition:
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