peasant

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In long, meandering speeches laced with peasant folklore, Museveni often appeals for more time, likening himself to a farmer leaving a plantation just as it starts bearing fruit.

From Barron's • Jan. 12, 2026

It tells the story of Juan Diego, a peasant of Chichimeca descent who was visited several times by the Virgin Mary.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2025

Ms. Rizer begins in a peasant shift of woven jute and ends, after seven layers and 154 pounds of increasing Tolstoyan grandeur, cocooned in a wintry mantle of taupe.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2025

This party traces its ideological roots to a 1946 peasant uprising in the southern state of Telangana.

From BBC • May 27, 2025

Theo likes some of Vincent’s paintings well enough to take them back to Paris: oil paintings of peasant women and a still life of flowers in a vase.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman