bourgeoisie, common sort, commonalty, laborers, lower middle class, middle class, plain folks, rank and file, the lower cut, toilers, vulgus
Definitionn. the class of peasants
Last update: June 16, 2015
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They embroil me with the peasantry. [Please select]
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"Knocking-the-cat-out-of-the-barrel" is an old custom of the peasantry which takes place the Monday before Lent. [Please select]
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In the stalk of the rye occurs a knot, forming a slight bulge known to the peasantry as the "sweet joint." [Please select]
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Gault, unused to such talk from the alleged "peasantry," resolved to cut short the haggling. [Please select]
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Though abbots were chosen generally from the upper classes, yet the ordinary monks sprang from the peasantry. [Please select]
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The peasantry of Europe became earnest and stalwart warriors and farmers, even under the grinding despotism of feudal masters. [Please select]
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In the castle she became genial and kind and sympathetic,--although haughty to inferiors and hard on the peasantry. [Please select]
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He therefore gave new privileges to all; he gave charters of freedom to towns; he made concessions to the peasantry. [Please select]
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Only the _byline_, or hero-songs of Russia, equal in extent the amount of knowledge about the heroes of the past that still exists among the Gaelic-speaking peasantry of Scotland and Ireland. [Please select]
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But the story of Finn, as told by the Gaelic peasantry of to-day, deserves a volume by itself, while the adventures of the Ultonian hero, Cuchulain, could easily fill another. [Please select]
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