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• Peasant revolt — Peasant, Peasants or Popular is variously paired with Revolt, Uprising and War and may refer to (sorted chronologically): *Chen Sheng Wu Guang Uprising 209BC *Yellow Turban Rebellion 184 *Bagaudae in third to fifth century Gaul and Hispania… …   Wikipedia

• Peasant foods — (or poor people s food) are those dishes specific to a particular culture made from accessible and inexpensive ingredients and usually prepared and spiced to make them more palatable. They have often formed a significant part of the diets of poor …   Wikipedia

• peasant proprietor — peasant proprietorship. a peasant who owns land, esp. the land he or she tills. [1785 95] * * * …   Universalium

• Peasant — Peas ant, n. [OF. pa[ i]sant (the i being perh. due to confusion with the p. pr. of verbs), pa[ i]san, F. paysan, fr. OF. & F. pays country, fr. L. pagus the country. See {Pagan}.] A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Peasant — Peas ant, a. Rustic, rural. Spenser. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Peasant Woman Against a Background of Wheat — is an 1890 painting by Vincent van Gogh.On October 7 2005, it was announced that Stephen Wynn had sold the painting along with Gauguin s Bathers to Steven A. Cohen for $100 million …   Wikipedia

• peasant — index ignoble Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• peasant — early 15c., from Anglo Fr. paisant (mid 14c.), O.Fr. paisent (12c.), earlier paisenc, from pais country, region + Frankish suffix enc ing. Pais is from L.L. pagensis inhabitant of the district, from L. pagus country or rural district (see PAGAN… …   Etymology dictionary

• peasant — [n] farmer boor, bumpkin, countryman/woman, cropper, farmhand, hayseed*, hick*, hired hand, laborer, peon, planter, provincial, rube, rustic, serf, sharecropper, villein; concepts 347,348,423 …   New thesaurus

• peasant — ► NOUN 1) a poor smallholder or agricultural labourer of low social status. 2) informal an ignorant, rude, or unsophisticated person. DERIVATIVES peasantry noun. ORIGIN Old French paisent, from pais country …   English terms dictionary

• peasant — [pez′ənt] n. [LME paissaunt < Anglo Fr paisant < MFr païsent < OFr < païs, country < LL pagensis, belonging to the district < pagus, district: see PAGAN] 1. any person of the class of small farmers or of farm laborers, as in… …   English World dictionary