[ UK /pˈiːən/ ]
[ US /ˈpiən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a laborer who is obliged to do menial work
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How To Use peon In A Sentence

  • It was made of a mixture of roots of zedoary similar to ginger, lovage and peony, parsnip seeds, mistletoe, myrrh, castor oil and dried millipedes steeped in mugwort tea and brandy. Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe
  • After the 1979 revolution, they argued that women cannot be judges, and they made us all into peons in the ministry of justice.
  • Technically there are three kinds of peony: herbaceous, tree and intersectional. Times, Sunday Times
  • Could be a type of "peony" version of oriental, though. Anybody know what kind of flowers these are?
  • Outside, the box partitions are now planted with peonies and old roses such as Bourbon and Banksiae.
  • In the perennial border, a shrublet is the plant that's always in bloom, providing a wonderful contrast with peonies in the spring, delphinium in midsummer, and phlox in late summer.
  • Peltandra undulata.pennisetum. pennyroyal.pentstemon. peony.peppermint. pepperidge. pepper, red. perennials, cultivation of. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
  • WHile they cause the red and blue peons to fight amongest themselves, our purple leaders keep raking in the money. Think Progress » ThinkFast: May 11, 2006
  • In the Middle Ages, aristocrats and clerics were protected by a panoply of rules and customs - sumptuary laws, for example - that separated them from the peons.
  • Every so often, one of the peones comes out from behind the barrera to taunt the bull, dodging agilely, all to see the character of the animal, and to draw him to different areas of the ring. There is no such thing as a bullfight
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