I. adjective
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The food selection - hot dogs and beer - was rather plebeian .
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But the Master, it must be said, is a man of plebeian tastes.
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From at least the closing years of the eighteenth century the decline of gentry involvement and even tolerance of plebeian sports was evident.
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He has also noted the importance of publicans as profit-minded promoters of plebeian events.
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Later, plebeian families imitated this ancient model and began to worship their ancestors as if they were gods.
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Nor were plebeian members mere foot-soldiers at the disposal of intelligenty party officials.
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There was nothing vulgar about these hands, not like his wife's plebeian paws with their chilblains and chipped red enamel.
II. noun
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As Godoy claimed, the Tumult of Aranjuez was the work of seduced plebeians, a revolution that seeped down from above.
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Both nobles and plebeians quench the thirst of their lust here.
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Both speakers are trying to establish their own power by appealing to the plebeians whose support they totally depend on.
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Presently he soon takes advantage of the simplicity of the plebeians.
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Shakespeare emphasizes how strongly the plebeians are in favour of Brutus when Antony begins to speak.
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The plebeians are a bit thick, as they didn't see through Caesar.
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These first few lines are very formal, perhaps too formal for the plebeians.