(n) :
impoverished rural farm workers, either as serfs, small freeholders or hired hands; an ignorant person of the lowest social status; bumpkins, rustics
"1885 Such strange lingering echoes of the old demon worship might perhaps even now be caught by the diligent listener among the gray-haired peasantry"
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(n) :
impoverished rural farm workers, either as serfs, small freeholders or hired hands; an ignorant person of the lowest social status; bumpkins, rustics
"1885 Such strange lingering echoes of the old demon worship might perhaps even now be caught by the diligent listener among the gray-haired peasantry"