Definition of "peons" [peons]

• Plural form of peon. (noun)

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• "It had three rooms and a kitchen, with some sheds at the back -- one a stable appropriated to the mustang mare, another to some mules, and a third occupied by two men of the class of "peons" -- the male domestics of the establishment."
• "He was a man, as the lowest of his peons was a man."
• "Ramón was a man as the least of his peons was a man, with the beating heart and the secret loins and the lips closed on the same secret of manhood."