noun
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peasants as a class
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conduct characteristic of peasants
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the status of a peasant
Etymology
Origin of peasantry
Example Sentences
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Before the uprising can commence, the General has to unify the Polish nobility and peasantry to accumulate the muscle needed to beat back Mother Russia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
Instead we are left with Henry attempting to install a kinder, gentler way of taxing the peasantry; Julia scheming to keep her pregnancy safe; and Ellen and Brian preparing to risk it all for love.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025
They are members of a technological medieval peasantry.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2024
It was rumored to have been said by an out-of-touch Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France, after she learned that the French peasantry had run out of bread.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
Feeling exultant as he drove back to Cange, he considered the real victors of the election to be the Haitian peasantry, like his friends and patients at the clinic.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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