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peasant
noun as in small farmer who rents land
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The self-confessed "elder son of a peasant family" from the northern village of Etunda had a modest start in life, with little more than a primary school education.
It is "people very, very poor, sort of peasant background – very, very rural, almost cut off from even the home origin countries that they might have been in," she said.
He filmed the new “Nosferatu” inside studios and outside castles in Eastern Europe, striving for authenticity in everything from 1830s peasant garb to retrograde psychological beliefs.
In the late 1960s, Fred was a humanitarian-aid volunteer in Laos when he discovered that his country was taking the lives of peasants there by the thousands.
That includes marrying a much older, undead Greek peasant shunned by this social caste’s peers.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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