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Peasant

noun

A country person. Synonyms: bucolic, provincial.

One of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers.

A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement. Synonyms: barbarian, boor, churl, Goth, tike, tyke.

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... Vocem. I have found among Italian witches as with Red Indian wizards, every magical operation depended on an incantation, and every incantation on the feeling, intonation, or manner in which it is sung. Thus near Rome any peasant overhearing a scongiurasione would recognize ...

— The Mystic Will • Charles Godfrey Leland

... across an open space, and here it was that the suppliants were wont to assemble. On this particular morning there were but two or three—a Parisian, who conceived himself injured by the provost of his guild, a peasant whose cow had been torn by a huntsman's dog, and a farmer who had had hard usage from his feudal lord. A few questions and then a hurried order to his secretary disposed of each case, for if Louis was a tyrant himself, he had at least the merit ...

— The Refugees • Arthur Conan Doyle

... looked maliciously, for she hastily added—"He has entirely cured me of those horrid eruptions in the face, that made my complexion like a peasant's." ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 • Various

... believing that her procreative powers were returning, she married a vigorous negro of thirty-five and experienced little difficulty in satisfying his desires. Du Peyrou de Cheyssiole and Bonhoure speak of an aged peasant woman, past ninety-one years ...

— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould

... The largeness of brain with which Shakespeare endows his human devil, and the largeness of heart of which he does not seem to wish us to imagine him as in certain circumstances incapable, contrast sharply enough with the peasant meanness of Lisbeth. Indeed, Balzac, whose seldom erring instinct in fixing on the viler parts of human nature may have been somewhat too much dwelt on, but is undeniable, has here and elsewhere hit the fault of the lower class generally very well. It does not appear that the Hulots, ...

— Poor Relations • Honore de Balzac

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