1countryman, inhabitant of a country:
(
c.1200;
MS: s.xivin
)
Assez sevent li paisant K'en la contree sunt manant
185
(
MS: s.xiii2
)
colonus: paisant
i 151
(
s.xiii3/4;
MS: s.xiii3/4
)
Kent est une province en Engleterre delez le occean de Bretaigne. E la cité de ceste province est apelez des peisanz Cantorbirie
18
(
s.xivin;
MS: 1312-40
)
Fouke e ces compaignons aveient enquis des paissantz qe le roy Johan fust a Wyndesoure
48.28
2statusagriculturalpeasant, rural inhabitant who works the land, normally representing one of the lowest orders of society:
(
c.1165;
MS: s.xiii2
)
Od paisanz, od povre gent, Perneit la nuit herbergement
152.33
(
1190-93;
MS: s.xiv1
)
Cuntes, baruns e chevalers, [...] Cithetheins, burgeis e paisanz
2885
(
c.1275;
MS: s.xiii4/4
)
Aprés suy un povre peysaunt
3343
(
1312;
MS: s.xiv1
)
Les povres peissanz
(var. (U: s.xiv1/4) paissauns; (T: s.xiv2) peisanz; (Ph: s.xiv1/3) peisuns) en mon tens Soleient aver bon defens
35.205
♦
pej.bumpkin, uncouth person:
(
MS: s.xiii2/3
)
Ne fud paisant ne neif vil
19.68
(
c.1330;
MS: 1330-40
)
Mes a ribaldz e a pesauntz Est l'ordre
(=the Order of Fair Ease) del tot defendu
132.20
1statuspeasant, relative to a rural inhabitant normally representing one of the lowest orders of society:
(
c.1235;
MS: c.1235
)
Perdirent blez e fruit li gainnur paisant
1142
(
1305
)
q'il ly voylle grauntier pountage pur cync aunz al pount de Jarmi, [...] pur comun profit des gentz pessauntz
i 468
paisant (c.1165)