The word 'peasant' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone from a lower class in society or who works in manual labor. Example sentence: The village was primarily made up of peasants who worked hard in the fields every day.
Our China correspondent Jonathan Watts picked up the Press Award for his Weekend magazine feature, 'The Big Steal', a story of violent protest by millions of China's peasant families against land grabs by local authorities and developers.
Harvest, his latest novel, dramatises one of the great under-told narratives of English history: the forced enclosure of open fields and common land from the late medieval era on, whereby subsistence agriculture was replaced by profitable wool production and the peasant farmers dispossessed and displaced.
It opens with a sentence that could pass as a summary of the whole Blackwood project: "Hibbert, always conscious of two worlds, was in this mountain village, conscious of three... ...... There's the world of the wealthy English tourist, the patronisingly observed "peasant world" and "this other – which he could only call the world of Nature".
She has a hasty look as she bustles in, wrapped in a black shawl – part Mediterranean peasant, part human dynamo.
This is a glimpse of contemporary peasant life in rural China, shot through with history but rendered almost hallucinatory by the muted colours and the sustained sense of the supernatural.
But it has been shortened to boho, which just refers to a peasant dress or a girl in beads.
Robert says he needs around USH 200,000 ($80) more, but says that as a "peasant", he too will struggle.
In a subsequent blogpost, it published emails from several accounts that it said belonged to Medvedev, including receipts for technology purchases and a picture of him in a peasant shirt.
Sean O'Faolain considered no one spared: "We see the prostitute, the beastly peasant, the timid bourgeois, the civil servant – his favourite subjects – in an unpitying light that exposes their wrinkled faces, their painted gums, their frayed cuffs, their shifty eyes, their hearts that have dried like peas".
(Still, at the beginning of the 21st century, a leading European economic magazine doggedly insisted on illustrating a piece about Poland with a peasant riding on a cart. Today, carts are to be seen in museums).
An Algerian peasant from a tiny village is drawn into the de-colonial struggle.
