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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
- For thousands of years, our people have been peasants working the land of others.Chapter 9 (67% in)
- We were peasants.Chapter 9 (47% in)
There are no more uses of "peasant" in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
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