Both Uses
peasant
in
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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- We were peasants.†
Chpt 9peasants = 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
- For thousands of years, our people have been peasants working the land of others.†
Chpt 9 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(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
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)