Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Amended spellings of peasant, peasantry.

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Examples

  • Grizelda, though thou pleasest me wonderfully, by the birth of this Princely Boy, yet my subjects are not therewith contented, but blunder abroad maliciously; that the grandchild of Janiculo, a poore countrey pezant, when I am dead and gone, must be their Soveraigne Lord and Master.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Among many other that gave him welcom home, was a yong Hebrew pezant of the country, sturdy, strong and yet comely of person, being named

    The Decameron 2004

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