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Home Dictionary Name: folkFolc-mote or folk-mote
Folc-mote or folk-mote [fr. folk, Sax., people, and mote, meeting], a general assembly of the people to consider of an order matters concerning the commonwealth; also any kind of popular or public meeting, Somner; Spelm.; Brady's Glos. 48; Termes de la ley....
Borel-folk
Borel-folk, country people, from the Fr., boure, a lock of wool, because they covered their heads with such stuff....
Folc-right, or folk-right
Folc-right, or folk-right, the jus commune, or common Law, mentioned in the laws of King Edward the Elder, declaring the same equal right, law, or justice to be due to persons of all degrees....
blues
a type of folk song that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century has a melancholoy sound from repeated used of blue notes...
brittlebush
fragrant rounded shrub of SW US and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue green leaves and yellow flowers produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine...
Folk
In Anglo Saxon times the people of a group of townships or villages a community a tribe...
Folkland
Land held in villenage being distributed among the folk or people at the pleasure of the lord of the manor and resumed at his discretion Not being held by any assurance in writing it was opposed to bookland or charter land which was held by deed...
folktale
a tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk especially one forming part of the tradition of a culture...
hootenanny
An informal social gathering or concert featuring mostly folk songs sometimes dancing and where the audience often participates in the singing...
Scyphus
A kind of large drinking cup used by Greeks and Romans esp by poor folk...
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