peoples
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The time-honored tradition usually involves shovel-to-shovel contact and face-to-face interaction among neighbors, adjoining landowners or what are known as peones - people hired to do the digging for them.
From Washington Times • Apr. 11, 2020
For he had only a part of the army, the police, the politically inert peones, and a frowsy minority of labor behind him.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like many of the 2,500 bullfighters, from the lowliest peones to the top matadors, whom Don Luis has treated, Bienvenida felt that no other surgeon could have saved his life.
From Time Magazine Archive
Around their desks cluster little groups of picturesque peones in cinema costumes�huge hats and white shirts, usually with the Mexican eagle and serpent embroidered on the bosom�and armed to the teeth.
From Time Magazine Archive
I began to advance towards it, but the fearful peones strove to detain me.
From Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development by Hume, Martin
