Sentence examples for the peasantry from inspiring English sources
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The word 'peasantry' is a correct and usable term in written English.
You can use 'peasantry' to refer to a class of people who make their living mainly from farming and related activities, often from small plots of land. For example, "The peasantry in rural India have been particularly hard-hit by droughts in recent years."
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the peasantry
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Impoverished rural farm workers, either as serfs, small freeholders or hired hands.
- 1920 They distressed her. They were so stolid. She had always maintained that there is no American peasantry, and she sought now to defend her faith by seeing imagination and enterprise in the young Swedish farmers, and in a traveling man working over his order-blanks. But the older people, Yankees as well as Norwegians, Germans, Finns, Canucks, had settled into submission to poverty. They were peasants, she groaned. — Sinclair Lewis, Main Street", Chapter 3.
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