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• n  a country person
• n  one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers
• n  a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement

• Graft-ridden and Crown-trodden, the people of Rumania lost last week their great champion against the small, oligarchic moneyed class; Professor Iuliu Maniu, the first peasant .
• Born to a family of peasant farmers in 1943, he came as a young man to work in the vast shipyards that the communist state was developing on the Baltic coast, as did so many other .
• The peasant explains with a wink: "The peasant's cottage soon grows sick and draughty.

• provincial
• bucolic
• barbarian
• boor
• churl
• Goth
• tyke
• tike

News & Articles

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• Public safety director identifies man seriously injured in oil explosion as Clare County man
  Blackman-Leoni Township Department of Public Safety Mike Jester has identified the 32-year-old man injured in the explosion as Greg Peacock, of Farwell in Clare County. He works for B and H Trucking Company out of Mt. Peasant.
  June 13, 2013 - The Jackson Citizen Patriot
• Public safety director identifies man seriously injured in oil explosion as Clare County man
  Blackman-Leoni Township Department of Public Safety Mike Jester has identified the 32-year-old man injured in the explosion as Greg Peacock, of Farwell in Clare County. He works for B and H Trucking Company out of Mt. Peasant.
  June 13, 2013 - The Saginaw News
• ‘The Dark Road,’ a Novel by Ma Jian
  Ma Jian’s new novel, “The Dark Road,” follows members of a Chinese peasant family as they go on the run, evading population enforcers and hoping to give birth to a son.
  June 11, 2013 - International Herald Tribune

Quotes

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• Oliver Stone in International Herald Tribune
  I have no illusions about the FARC, but it looks like they are a peasant army fighting for a decent living,Stone said in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press at his hotel bar. "And here, if you fight, you fight to win."
• Fernando Lugo in Washington Post
  This is where I learned to love the peasant, the indigenous people, and to admire their efforts to excel despite adverse conditions,Lugo said after arriving in the town of 29,000 several hundred miles (kilometers) north of the capital of...
• Guy Philippe in CNN
  If they have proof, let them bring it on,said Philippe, adding that he plans eventually to return to his rural home and "live like a simple peasant."