All 16 Uses
peasant
in
Memoirs of a Geisha
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- I knew I was wet from the rain, and bloody too, and that I was barefoot and dirty, and wearing peasant clothing.†
p. 14.1
- He didn't wear peasant clothing like the fishermen, but rather a man's kimono, with kimono trousers that made him look to me like the illustrations you may have seen of samurai.†
p. 14.2
- Mrs. Fidget untied the peasant shirt Satsu was wearing and removed it.†
p. 25.3
- Her older sister looks like a peasant beside her!†
p. 26.3
- I felt myself to blame for what had happened, and wiped her face with the corner of my peasant shirt.†
p. 26.6
- An old peasant woman with her teeth bared like a dog's came over with a carrot for Satsu, and after giving it to her asked where she was going.†
p. 34.4
- But when the interior door opened, I was surprised to see a man, wearing a traditional, loose-fitting workman's jacket tied shut at the hip and a pair of peasant trousers—though he didn't look at all like a workman or a peasant.†
p. 68.4
- But when the interior door opened, I was surprised to see a man, wearing a traditional, loose-fitting workman's jacket tied shut at the hip and a pair of peasant trousers—though he didn't look at all like a workman or a peasant.†
p. 68.4
- You look like a peasant!†
p. 140.1
- I won't pretend poor people never came to Gion, but we rarely saw anyone like these starving peasants too poor even to bathe.
p. 184.1peasants = 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
- I was too numbed with cold to care what he was talking about, for I wore only a heavy shawl around my peasant's clothing; no one wore kimono during the day any longer.†
p. 337.5
- I wasn't properly dressed for the weather, but I put my ration coupons back into the pocket of my peasant pants and set out at once for the northwest of the city.†
p. 337.9
- I never thought to see you looking like the wife of a peasant.†
p. 338.2
- "I am a peasant," I said to myself, "and not a geisha at all any longer."
p. 350.1 *peasant = a person of low income, education, and social standing
- "My goodness, Sayuri, you do look like a peasant!" he said.†
p. 356.9
- I wore a kimono shawl and carried a lacquered umbrella, so I'm sure I was as unrecognizable as the day I'd visited Gion looking like a peasant.†
p. 359.6
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)