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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Claudius has made himself a monarch again, standing at the head of a shrieking horde of desperate peasantry who believe he can unbar the door to that heavenly place.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
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
Here and there are the traditional khaki-colored mud-brick huts of the Chinese peasantry.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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