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paisant (c.1165)
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paisant (c.1165)

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paisaunt,  paissant,  paissaunt,  paysan,  paysaunt;  peisant,  peisaunt,  peissant,  peissaunt,  peisunt,  pesant,  pesaunt,  pessaunt,  peysaunt,  peyssant  (passant  Fol Trist ANTS 135 (ms.),  persant  Rom Chev ANTS 5952 (var.))  
  FEW:  pagensis 7,470b Gdf:  paisant 5,597b GdfC:  païsenc 10,258b TL: païsent 7,67 DEAF:  paisant  DMF:  paysan  TLF:  paysan  OED:  peasant n. and adj.  MED:  paisaunt n.  DMLBS:  pagensis 2081a

s.

1countryman, inhabitant of a country: 
( c.1200; MS: s.xivin )  Assez sevent li paisant K'en la contree sunt manant  S Osith 185
( MS: s.xiii2 )  colonus: paisant  TLL 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  Liv Regions 18
( s.xivin; MS: 1312-40 )  Fouke e ces compaignons aveient enquis des paissantz qe le roy Johan fust a Wyndesoure  Fouke ANTS 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  marie Lais 152.33
( 1190-93; MS: s.xiv1 )  Cuntes, baruns e chevalers, [...] Cithetheins, burgeis e paisanz  S Edm Life ANTS 2885
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Aprés suy un povre peysaunt  S Fran ANTS 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  Plainte Am 35.205
♦pej.bumpkin, uncouth person: 
( MS: s.xiii2/3 )  Ne fud paisant ne neif vil  Fabliaux 19.68
( c.1330; MS: 1330-40 )  Mes a ribaldz e a pesauntz Est l'ordre (=the Order of Fair Ease) del tot defendu  Pol Songs 132.20

a.

statuspeasant, 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  S Aub 1142
( 1305 )  q'il ly voylle grauntier pountage pur cync aunz al pount de Jarmi, [...] pur comun profit des gentz pessauntz  Rot Parl1 i 468

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See also:

pais1  paisee 
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