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How to pronounce peasantry

“peasantry” pronunciation in American and British English

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“peasantry” in real sentences

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  1. But far from stabilizing the monarchy’s authority, Rasputin’s death enraged the peasantry.

    TED-Ed

  2. power and prestige: apparatchiks or government officials, intelligentsia, industrial workers, and the rural peasantry.

    CrashCourse

  3. people, the peasantry as they would have called themselves at the time, and the urban poor

    British Library

  4. have expected this kind of Valor from Southland peasantry or you have the queen saying something

    MooLer

Words that sound like “peasantry”

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