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- noun Plural form of
peasant .
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Examples
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The nobles in turn held land that peasants, including serfs, were allowed to farm in return for the peasants labor and a portion of their produce.
feudalism 2002
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You sit here and talk about giving the land to the peasants, and you commit an act of tyrants and usurpers against the peasants chosen representatives!
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The peasants who had been put on the rent system did not bring their money at the time due, and stole the forest-timber; almost every night the keepers caught peasants horses in the meadows of the farm, and sometimes forcibly bore them off.
Chapter XXII 1917
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But this will prove difficult during this year's elections -- scheduled for April 8 and 9 -- as Zanu-PF has a traditional stronghold among what it calls peasants, because of their role in the country's liberation war.
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Once we finally free the peasants from the burden imposed by participatory democracy, they will finally be free to better themselves!
The Volokh Conspiracy » Federalism Restoration Amendment: Take 2 2010
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Once we finally free the peasants from the burden imposed by participatory democracy, they will finally be free to better themselves!
The Volokh Conspiracy » Federalism Restoration Amendment: Take 2 2010
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This I could never understood: the Russians came "to free the peasants from the yoke of the Polish landlords" and yet, many of poor peasants were deported with us to Siberia.
The Lipinsky Memoir, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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A crack European army had been soundly defeated by a motley collection of machete-wielding peasants from the war-torn republic of Mexico ...
Did You Know? Cinco de Mayo is more widely celebrated in USA than Mexico 2009
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A crack European army had been soundly defeated by a motley collection of machete-wielding peasants from the war-torn republic of Mexico ...
Did You Know? Cinco de Mayo is more widely celebrated in USA than Mexico 2009
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You blaady Scots are such a nieve (intentional) bunch a sheep shagin peasants - it's no contest. scunnert,
Pre-Revolutionary Scotland 2009 Alan Smart 2009
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