Peasantly - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: peasantlyVerbarJacquerie
The name given to a revolt of French peasants against the nobles in 1358 the leader assuming the contemptuous title Jacques Bonhomme given by the nobles to the peasantry Hence any revolt of peasants...
Barbizon school
A French school of the middle of the 19th century centering in the village of Barbizon near the forest of Fontainebleau Its members went straight to nature in disregard of academic tradition treating their subjects faithfully and with poetic feeling for color light and atmosphere It is exemplified esp in landscapes by Corot Rousseau Daubigny Jules Dupreacute and Diaz Associated with them are certain painters of animals as Troyon and Jaque and of peasant life as Millet and Jules Breton...
Boor
A husbandman a peasant a rustic esp a clownish or unrefined countryman...
Camisard
One of the French Protestant insurgents who rebelled against Louis XIV after the revocation of the edict of Nates so called from the peasants smock camise which they wore...
Carlot
A churl a boor a peasant or countryman...
VerbarFellah
A peasant or cultivator of the soil among the Egyptians Syrians etc...
Hine
A servant a farm laborer a peasant a hind...
Hoddengray
Applied to coarse cloth made of undyed wool formerly worn by Scotch peasants...
mujik
A Russian peasant especially prior to 1917...
muzjik
A Russian peasant especially prior to 1917...
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