Peasantry
['pezəntrɪ] or ['pɛzntri]
Definition
(n.) Peasants, collectively; the body of rustics.
(n.) Rusticity; coarseness.
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Examples
- There is no peasantry among the First Born. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- If Parliament don't take their abominable courses under consideration, this country's ruined, and the character of the peasantry gone for ever! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- But, brother, they are not common sabots, such as the peasantry wear. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The mass of her population was a downtrodden and savagely ignorant peasantry, and she also harboured great masses of very poor Jews. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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