The same homely dress she wore in the days of her peasanthood.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

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 primitiveness, and on to a new peasanthood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voyage of the Space Beagle]

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 rights with her equally oppressed peasant husband, but I digress … but he doesn’t convince me that the gender gap is really getting smaller.    From Wordnik.com.  [ProWomanProLife » The gender gap, exposed, again] Reference