Meanings
- literaryuncommonuncountableThe inhabitants of a region, especially if native.
The landfolk of the region had that day brought to the revolutionary court of judgment a young man of handsome and frank countenance.
1963, Pearl Buck, The Living Reed, New York: John Day Co., →OCLC2 more examples
[…]and I should be happy to know that my homely strains might have at all refined it among the landfolk of my own county, or any other[…]
1870, William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect; Third Collection, 2nd edition, London: John Russell Smith, page iiiWhen the landfolk of Galway converse with a stranger, / softly the men speak, more softly the women, / light words on their lips, and an accent that sings.
1944, William Bedell Stanford, “Undertone”, in Donagh MacDonagh, editor, Poems from Ireland, Dublin: Hely's Limited
Origin
- Middle Englishlond folk
- Englishlandfolk
Calque of Middle English lond folk or Old English landfolc.
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