1796 S. J. Pratt (ed. 2) lxiii. 115 This peasant family were then celebrating it [sc. the last day of Carme].
1859 C. Dickens iii. xii. 229 That peasant-family so injured by the two Evrémonde brothers..is my family.
1974 tr. A. Snieckus 75 Inefficient, semi-natural farms, unbearable tax burdens, and constant anxiety over the future—such was the lot of many, many peasant families.