Words similar to folk

Example sentences for: folk

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Before the Revolution, royal officials and other wealthy folk lived here, but in the 19th century it became a crowded slum as immigrants — Irish, Jewish, Portuguese, and Italian — poured into the district.
Most European newspapers led Monday with the anointing of Gerhard Schröder as Helmut Kohl's Social Democrat opponent in the fall election for the German chancellorship, though the British press made more of Sunday's "countryside march," which brought at least 250,000 country folk to London to demonstrate against proposed legislation to abolish fox hunting and other assaults on the country way of life.
Folk etymology is favored in this dictionary.
If it's any consolation to Emmons, Hammerstein's very last lyric, "Edelweiss" from The Sound of Music , is invariably assumed to be a real Austrian folk song--indeed, a few years back, the White House went further, playing it at a state banquet for the Austrian president, under the impression that it was the country's national anthem.
Nazaré: Our Lady of Nazaré (Nossa Senhora da Nazaré): fishermen carry an image of the town’s patron saint on their shoulders in festive processions; also bullfights, fairs, concerts, folk dancing, and singing.