Definition of "ploughmen" [ploughmen]

• Plural form of ploughman. (noun)

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• "It was the lower sort of people with whom he chiefly conversed, such as ploughmen, ditchers, and other day-labourers."
• "The ploughman’s lunch originated in England, where fieldworkers have been called ploughmen or ploughboys since at least the middle of the fourteenth century."
• "I opened the collar of my shirt—it was a vulgar blue-and-white check such as ploughmen wear—and revealed a neck as brown as any tinker's."