femalefolk

plural femalefolks

1. Indiapluralplural onlysingularWomenfolk; female people collectively.

   Many of the femalefolk had to earn their living by unethical means.

   1992, S. K. Ghosh, Women and Crime: Crime by Women, Crime Against Women & Crime for Women, Nataraj Books, page X

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   In the meantime, the femalefolk of the house, after taking bath and wearing clean clothes, clean and arrange the articles of the pujā near the Thān.

   1963, Amal Kumar Das, Manis Kumar Raha, The Orāons Of Sunderban, Government of West Bengal, page 301

   While in Chango and Rogi more femalefolk are participating as the working units than the malefolk, in Kongos the reverse is the case.

   1985, Manis Kumar Raha, Satya Narayan Mahato, The Kinnaurese of the Himalayas, Anthropological Survey of India, page 87

2. IndiacountablepluralsingularA woman; a female person.

   All the houses, numbering 42, were levelled to the ground, the male and femalefolks having taken shelter in the neighbouring jungles for fear of oppression.

   1947, Govind Sahai, 42 Rebllion, Delhi: Rajkamal Publications LTD., page 299

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   Women observe purdah in the presence of senior male members of the husband's household and generally maintain distance from the male relatives, whereas relationship existing with femalefolks of a household is free from restraint and inhibition.

   1992, “Himachal Pradesh”, in K. S. SINGH, editor, People of India, volume XXIV, page 548