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Recent Examples of peasantry
Irish butter may now an internationally marketable commodity, but in Swift’s day, the Irish peasantry fought back against their replacement by cattle by maiming and driving the unfortunate cattle off cliffs.
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Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Sep. 2025
But the network structures of Colonial America and ancien régime France were profoundly different (for example, the former lacked a large, illiterate peasantry).
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Niall Ferguson,
Foreign Affairs,
15 Aug. 2017
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Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Sep. 2025
But the network structures of Colonial America and ancien régime France were profoundly different (for example, the former lacked a large, illiterate peasantry).
—
Niall Ferguson,
Foreign Affairs,
15 Aug. 2017
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for peasantry
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All that loot pumped out of the Armenian proletariat, says the gaur, and for what.
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Severin, on the other hand, represents the revolutionary proletariat.
Noun
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Many Black Americans fled this violent system of peonage and terror in the Great Migration, moving to cities such as Gary and Pittsburgh for a better life.
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For a long time, the lifestyles and foibles of the modest bourgeoisie were a mainstay of art-house cinema, with urbane, upscale audiences happy to turn out to see versions of their own lives depicted on the screen.
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His mother was born into Rome’s commercial bourgeoisie, but she had essentially been disinherited, nose-diving into the working class with a pair of children to raise.
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While state law enforcement agencies will get 4% raises, the budget includes no raises for the 100,000 or so rank and file state workers.
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The choice was particularly interesting to Hollywood rank and file, which, in the era of M&A and private equity investments, is contending with more than a few minefields.
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“Peasantry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peasantry. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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