In some countries farmworkers are still called “peasants”(camponês)there. In English-speaking countries we tend to think of the term as belonging strictly to the feudal era. However you use it, don’t confuse it with “pheasant,”(faizão)a bird. Use the sound of the beginning consonants to remind you of the difference: pheasants(fézants) are food, peasants (pézants) are people.
