peasant

We scan an Italian alternative whose packaging gives you the impression those biscuits have been hand-made by peasant women wearing black shawls.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 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

The split widens when a labor strike becomes an armed revolt, with Jacir gamely tracking the hardening or shifting loyalties of both her peasant and well-to-do characters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026

In long, meandering speeches laced with peasant folklore, Museveni often appeals for more time, likening himself to a farmer leaving a plantation just as it starts bearing fruit.

From Barron's ● Jan. 12, 2026

Now that noon was past, there were few people on the road, but soon they fell in with a peasant with a shepherd’s crook over his shoulder.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

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

This was distinct from Europe where aristocrats lived off inherited wealth, only peasants labored manually and one’s place in society was fixed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025

I went there, I learned to love the peasants, the bombing shocked my psyche and soul to the core, and I responded — not because I was hopeful or hopeless, but because I was alive.”

From Salon ● Nov. 17, 2024

Jacob is struggling to keep up, trying to duck and weave past all the peasants and peddlers in the road.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz