campesino
Americannoun
plural
campesinosExample Sentences
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We pass by the pitched tin roofs of tobacco-drying houses, and see workers in high straw campesino hats hoeing the red earth.
From The Guardian • Nov. 24, 2018
The couple have been in the U.S. since 1990, moving from rural Nayarit, Mexico, because they wanted their children to get an education and rise above the life of a campesino.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2018
With his hair wet and slicked down like Carlos’s, the campesino in the picture looked too much like Carlos for his comfort.
From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2015
The students, who are in their late teens and early twenties, tend to come from poor, indigenous campesino families.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 24, 2014
She had appeared one early morning to an old campesino coming into town with his donkey loaded down with garlic.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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