peasantry
suomi-englanti sanakirjapeasantry englannista suomeksi
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Substantiivi
peasantry englanniksi
Impoverished rural farm workers, either as serfs, small freeholders or hired hands.
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Ignorant people of the lowest social status; bumpkins, rustics.
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The condition of being a peasant; the position, rank, conduct, or quality of a peasant.
(RQ:Shakespeare Merchant of Venice Q1)
(quote-book) Augustine Matthewes|year=1622|page=74|passage=He ſhall be armed at all peeces from the mid-thigh vpward with a faire Sword by his ſide, and his Captaines Colours or ''Enſigne'' in his hand, which Colours if they belong to a priuate Captaine ought to bee mixt equally of two ſeuerall colours, that is to ſay (according to the rules of Herauldry) of Colour and Mettall, and not colour on colour, as Greene and Red, or Blacke and Blew, or ſuch like, nor yet mettall on mettall as White and Yellow, or Orangetawny and White: for colours ſo borne, ſhew Baſtardy, peaſantry, or diſhonor.
(RQ:Busching Murdoch Geography)
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) Tho. Bennet(nb...)|year=a. 1681|year_published=1691|page=2|passage=For certainly Sir I am ſo charitable to believe it was your Paſſion that impoſed upon your Underſtanding; elſe as a Gentleman you could have never deſcended to ſuch peaſantry of Language, eſpecially againſt ſuch a Perſon, to whom (had he never been your Prince) no Law enjoyns (whatſoever his Offences were) the puniſhment of Ribaldry.
(RQ:Lamb Essays of Elia)! have I in childhood so oft stood poring upon thy mystic characters—thy emblematic supporters, with their prophetic “Resurgam”—till, every dreg of peasantry purging off, I received into myself Very Gentility?