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Plebeian \Ple*be"ian\ (pl[-e]*b[=e]"yan), a. [L. plebeius, from plebs, plebis, the common people: cf. F. pl['e]b['e]ien.] 1. Of or pertaining to the Roman plebs, or common people.
2. Of or pertaining to the common people; vulgar; common; as, plebeian sports; a plebeian throng.
Plebeian \Ple*be"ian\, n. 1. One of the plebs, or common people of ancient Rome, in distinction from {patrician}.
2. One of the common people, or lower rank of men.
What a voice, even throughout the range, full of colour, zest and verbal inflections, with plebeian mockery peeping out from beneath a 'gentlemanly' exterior.
As the Conte, Graham Turner commits several cheap crimes: he employs a plebeian accent in an aristocratic role, he uses blatantly modern movements within exaggerated period costumes, and he tries making the same joke several times.
Sudden wealth has a plebeian ring in a community of Wall Street barons and third- and fourth-generation money.