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peasant

noun as in small farmer who rents land

noun as in a uneducated, rural person

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In the late 1960s, Fred was a humanitarian-aid volunteer in Laos when he discovered that his country was taking the lives of peasants there by the thousands.

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

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

One popular conspiracy theory held that the houses of respectable Protestant families were being raffled off in Catholic churches, to be invaded by unwashed broods of Irish peasants as soon as home rule was established.

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Instead, it brings the 17th century society vividly to life through a historically accurate spoken and visual language, which includes thousands of costumes for warlords, armies, peasants, courtesans and a bunch of shipwrecked European sailors.

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

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