Definitions
Farm workers or rural common people as a class.
Word origin
From peasant + -ry, from Middle English paissaunt.
Used in a sentence
“How much low pezantry would then be gleaned / From the true ſeede of honor? And how much honor, / Pickt from the chaffe and ruine of the times / To be new verniſh’d?”
“Whoever would appear at the Diet, muſt previouſly become a country-man, or aſſume the peaſantry, and alſo ſue for it with the laudable Land-ſtates and obtain it at the Land-diet.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Rural class”9 letters
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