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peasant

noun as in small farmer who rents land

noun as in a uneducated, rural person

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That includes marrying a much older, undead Greek peasant shunned by this social caste’s peers.

From Salon

The lone woman residing at the vampire house, Nadja grew up as a poor peasant girl on the island of Antipaxos.

For most of human history, identity was ascribed at birth: pauper, peasant, preacher, princess.

From Slate

A mood of desperation sinks in as the film showcases the punishing routines of rural peasant life, best exemplified by fishing scenes in which the slender Agnes struggles to keep up with the other workers.

When he suddenly encountered the peasant insurgents he had been seeking, he wrote, “The rustling of the trees became a rustling apart from the trees.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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