peasant

The son of a poor, illiterate peasant family, Lula worked as a peanut seller and shoe-shine boy as a child, only learning to read when he was 10 years old.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

A small group of men hoards wealth and resources, while the peasant class is heavily taxed, laws brutally enforced.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Local food writer Enrica Monzani says that pesto, which might pass for upscale or gourmet dining elsewhere, was originally “a peasant trick to increase portions without spending too much money.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

In Eastern Europe the labor camps had put an end to hundreds of years of colorful peasant attire, Ms. Müller observes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

They see the life and the feeling that Vincent meant to evoke, of real people, in a family, with faults, eating around a table, peasant life, real life, unromanticized.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

French interests in Europe competed with overseas colonies for resources while peasants and tradesmen resisted emigrating to develop them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

A teenager draws his slingshot, while fighters holding prayer beads take control of a Soviet tank, and peasants clutching pitchforks face Soviet soldiers.

From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026

The late French queen is best known for her supposedly callous, clueless, privileged suggestion that if the peasants couldn’t get enough bread, they should eat cake instead.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 2, 2026

"We borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants manufacture," the vice-president said.

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2025

There was a village in the north of France where peasants were venerating a dog as a saint.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz