All 11 Uses of
peasant
in
The Woman Warrior
- And I understand how working and hoeing are dancing; how peasant clothes are golden, as king's clothes are golden; how one of the dancers is always a man and the other a woman.†
Chpt 2
- I saw one young fighter salute his opponent-and five peasants hit him from behind with scythes and hammers.†
Chpt 2 *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
- Hold the peasants back with one hand and kill the warrior with the other.†
Chpt 2
- We were better equipped than many founders of dynasties had been when they walked north to dethrone an emperor; they had been peasants like us.†
Chpt 2
- The emperor, who sat facing south, must have been very frightened-peasants everywhere walking day and night toward the capital, toward Peiping.†
Chpt 2
- The peasants would crown as emperor a farmer who knew the earth or a beggar who understood hunger.†
Chpt 2
- We beheaded him, cleaned out the palace, and inaugurated the peasant who would begin the new order.†
Chpt 2
- After two years of study-the graduates of three-week and six-week courses were more admired by the peasants for learning at such wondrous speeds-my mother returned to her home village a doctor.†
Chpt 3peasants = 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
- They made rough movements, and their accents were not American exactly, but peasant like their mother's, as if they had come from a village deep inside China.†
Chpt 4
- We make guttural peasant noise and have Ton Duc Thang names you can't remember.†
Chpt 5
- The villagers' peasant minds converged on marriage.†
Chpt 5
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