proletarian
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Red is one of those colors that’s both aspirational and proletarian at the same time.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2024
Both he and Mr. Fetterman, who touted his years as mayor of a hard-hit steel town outside Pittsburgh, adopted the hooded sweatshirt as a proletarian uniform.
From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2022
The social critic Mike Davis once called these “stealth houses” that hide their “luxurious qualities with proletarian or gangster facades.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2022
He bought it at a junk shop in the proletarian district, a junk shop that will become very important, and he starts writing on it.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2021
Or they would disappear, alter themselves out of recognition, learn to speak with proletarian accents, get jobs in a factory, and live out their lives undetected in a back street.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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