Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or characteristic of peasants; of a peasant; peasant-like.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Peasantlike.
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- adjective obsolete Like a
peasant .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The richness of the chocolate glaze is the perfect contrast to the light, delicious texture of the cake and the cake as a whole turns out to have a peasantly dark chocolate taste.
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The richness of the chocolate glaze is the perfect contrast to the light, delicious texture of the cake and the cake as a whole turns out to have a peasantly dark chocolate taste.
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The average family of Xanth at this time was peasantly poor, as befitted the latter stage of the Dark Age.
Question Quest Anthony, Piers 1991
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The average family of Xanth at this time was peasantly poor, as befitted the latter stage of the Dark Age.
Question Quest Anthony, Piers 1991
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The ligatures of thy most peasantly jacket there are like to burst with thy secret.
Peveril of the Peak 1822
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“If I thought the round-headed rogues did it in scorn of us,” said Dick Wildblood of the Dale, “I would cudgel their psalmody out of their peasantly throats with this very truncheon;” a motion which, being seconded by old Roger Raine, the drunken tapster of the Peveril Arms in the village, might have brought on a general battle, but that Sir Jasper forbade the feud.
Peveril of the Peak 1822
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Dick Wildblood of the Dale, "I would cudgel their psalmody out of their peasantly throats with this very truncheon;" a motion which, being seconded by old Roger Raine, the drunken tapster of the Peveril
Peveril of the Peak Walter Scott 1801
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-- The ligatures of thy most peasantly jacket there are like to burst with thy secret.
Peveril of the Peak Walter Scott 1801
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Without mentioning any exact numbers, the Runescape studio has been peasantly surprised at the number of players that have been signing up to play War of Legends.
Jolt 2010
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“Reckoning!” exclaimed Lord Dalgarno in the same tone as before, “perish the peasantly phrase!
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