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or workfolks
as in tenant farmer
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Set in the Bangladeshi countryside during a pre-digital era, the film centers on Sadu, an impoverished tenant farmer who lives in isolation with his volatile wife.
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Playing alongside Clarence Muse, who portrays a tenant farmer, Fetchit was cast as the clichéd buffoon, lazy and happy-go-lucky.
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Part of his mission as an exemplary gentleman farmer was to convince his peers to attend to their estates and, in so doing, bring them back into the fold of solid Roman traditions.
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California’s beautiful water was tamed water, a community irrigation water system ideal for the gentleman farmer.
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Kevin Costner is the Iowa farmer who hears strange voices and builds a ball field in his corn.
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Over the last three years, farmers in California and Arizona have agreed to leave hay fields dry part of the year in exchange for federal payments.
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Sarnoski’s film takes its title from one of those ballads, in which Robin Hood — long before there was any Maid Marian to speak of — was a mere yeoman.
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Seniors Myles Montgomery and Jaden Nixon did yeoman’s work, accounting for 66% of the team’s rushing yards (1,259) and 55% of the team’s carries (214).
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“Workfolk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workfolk. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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