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Plain People

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Plain People  (pln)
pl.n.
Members of the Mennonites, Amish, or Dunkers, noted for their plain dress and simple style of life.
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You'll find us a united, simple, happy, and I think I may say respected, family--a plain table, a plain people, but a warm welcome, my dear Miss Rhoda--Rhoda, let me say, for my heart warms to you, it does really.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
I can't be put off with amiability, which is always the excuse people are making for the existence of plain people.
Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context
Mrs Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles View in context
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