Brewer's: Proletariat

Commonalty. (See Proletaire.)

“Italy has a clerical aristocracy, rich, idle, and corrupt; and a clerical proletariat, needy and grossly ignorant.” —The Times.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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