Definition of Peasantries

1. Noun. (plural of peasantry) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Peasantries

1. peasantry [n] - See also: peasantry

Lexicographical Neighbors of Peasantries

peartness
peartnesses
pearwood
pearwoods
peary
peas
peas and rice
peasant
peasant blouse
peasant revolt
peasant revolts
peasant shirt
peasanthood
peasantlike
peasantly
peasantries
peasantry
peasants
peasanty
peascod
peascods
pease
pease pudding
peasecod
peasecods
peased
peasen
peases
peashooter
peashooters

Literary usage of Peasantries

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Discussions in Economics and Statistics by Francis Amasa Walker, Davis Rich Dewey (1899)
"... in the then state of news- communication and ocean-transportation, and in spite of the ignorance and extreme poverty of the peasantries of Europe from ..."

2. Readings in Social Problems by Albert Benedict Wolfe (1916)
"... in the then state of news-communication and ocean-transportation, and in spite of the ignorance and extreme poverty of the peasantries of Europe from ..."

3. Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway (1879)
"It might have been expected, after the passages quoted from Mr. Ruskin concerning the bovine condition of Alpine peasantries, that he would salute the ..."

4. What Holds Us Together: Social Cohesion in South Africa by David Chidester, Phillip Dexter (2004)
"Bryceson DF (2000) Disappearing Peasantries? Rural Labour Redundancy in the Neo- Liberal Era in Bryceson DF, Kay C & Mooij J (eds) Disappearing Peasantries? ..."

5. Between Venice and Istanbul: Colonial Landscapes in Early Modern Greece by Siriol Davies, Jack L Davis (2007)
"1360-1860," in The Peasantries of Europe from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries, ed. T. Scott, London, pp. 269— 310. Athanassopoulos, EF 1997. ..."

6. The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1907)
"Nor is this peculiar to Sambo; it has in history been just as true of John and Hans, of Jacques and Pat, of all ground-down peasantries. ..."

7. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... the instant it came to strokes : " You Lawyer people, with your priests and orthodox peasantries, you do the fighting part; ours is the consulting! ..."

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