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n. - The state of being a usually uneducated person of low social status

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  • The same homely dress she wore in the days of her peasanthood
  • Then we have cities and nations, finally the soulless world cities and a devastating struggle for power, a series of frightful wars which sweep men to fellahdom, and so to...
  • We all might agree that women aren’t on a retrograde slide to 18th century Irish peasanthood … although arguably an Irish peasant woman probably had pretty much equal...
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