All 9 Uses
peasant
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Cutting for Stone
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- The sight of barefoot peasants carrying impossible head loads and horse-drawn gharries plying the roads maintained the aura and mystique of this ancient kingdom that almost justified the fabulous tales of Prester John, who wrote in medieval times of a magical Christian kingdom surrounded by Muslim lands.†
Part 1peasants = 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
- The peasant Florino became Don Florino when he crossed the Suez.†
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- How we treat the least of our brethren, how we treat the peasant suffering with volvulus, that's the measure of this country.†
Part 2
- Under that peasant straw hat he burned with love for his daughter, and rage against the world that shunned her.†
Part 3
- The peasants worship the Emperor.†
Part 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
- In the end, it was peasants who betrayed the General with loud cries of lulululu when they stumbled on his group.†
Part 3
- From the witness box he preached his message: land reform, political reform, and the end of entitlements that reduced peasants to slaves.†
Part 3
- When I thought of how I had danced to it the previous night, it felt like the dance of an ignoramus, like the awe of a peasant seeing the neon beer mug on top of the Olivetti Building.†
Part 3
- Mengistu Haile Mariam, Strength of Mary, Secretary General of the Council of Peasants and Workers, Chairman of the Military Council of Socialist Ethiopia, President-for-Life of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Peoples of Ethiopia, General in Command of the Bureau for Armed Struggle Against Imperial Aggression in Tigre and Eritrea, had adopted an Albanian style of Marxism.†
Part 4peasants = 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
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)