'a peasantry' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a group of people who are of low social rank and subsist by farming or working on the land of a feudal lord. For example: The feudal lord maintained control over his kingdom through a system of taxation and exploitation of a peasantry.
The main character of a folk opera is the people, a peasantry who sing communally in a distinctive national idiom.
If the future of cities means a proletariat turning back into a peasantry, we ought not to expect them to be happy about it.
No specific age is ever given and his last name is barely used, which is appropriate since Fergus's family are "cabin people," as impoverished and isolated a peasantry as ever existed in Western Europe.
This goal struck a chord among the descendants of African slaves who make up 95percentt of the country's 6 million inhabitants and form a peasantry scratching out a sparse living from a land largely drained of natural wealth by overpopulation.
Earlier still, King Richard the Lionheart enjoyed great popularity among a peasantry whose only contact with him was paying his punitive taxes.
In the late eighteenth century the Electorate of Hannover still had a thriving aristocracy, a pliable peasantry, and a still nascent middle class.
His version of medieval England, where ruddy-faced barons are fatherly landlords to a contented peasantry, is a myth – his description of an idyllic Christmas in the castle finishes: "Even the weather behaved itself".
Before WWI and the 1917 Communist coup, signs of a vibrant civil society in Russia, including an independent judiciary and a landowning peasantry, had begun to emerge.
Small wonder that Nissan, Honda, GM, Coca-Cola, DuPont and Eurocopter are rushing to invest south of the border.Mexico is unusual in that it not only has a globalised elite but also a globalised peasantry.
The palace sits on assets worth an estimated $40 billion; more than the combined wealth of the country's next four richest tycoons.This imagination of Thai society as a pyramid, with the king for its apex, a tiered bureaucracy to assist him, and a broad peasantry living happily at the base, is still alive in many minds (a government agency published a memorable depiction of the pyramid in 1984).
She is of the opinion that, although the English may have had haggis first, thanks to the French culinary influence that came with the Auld Alliance and a thrifty peasantry that didn't mind an entrail or two, it was probably the Scots who perfected the dish.
