All 7 Uses
peasant
in
Uprising, by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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- You're just an ignorant peasant!†
p. 27.5 *
- Bella heard Signor Luciano swearing, cursing "useless peasant remedies."†
p. 124.1
- She remembered a line from one of her Italian guidebooks: In the countryside, and particularly in the mezzogiorno, in the southern part of Italy, the peasants have no knowledge of their own language, and instead speak only localized dialect.†
p. 143.9peasants = 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
- A peasant from one village may be completely incapable of conversing with a peasant from another village only scant miles away.†
p. 143.9
- A peasant from one village may be completely incapable of conversing with a peasant from another village only scant miles away.†
p. 144.1
- It was other children: scruffy, barefoot, half-starved, runny-nosed Italian peasant children—three boys and a girl, wearing only rags.†
p. 305.7
- Mrs. Livingston thinks of the landowners back in Italy who let the peasants die—their children probably thought they were wonderful too.†
p. 327.6peasants = 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)