folk
noun
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the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
Origin
From Middle English folk, from Old English folc, from Proto-West Germanic *folk, from Proto-Germanic *fulką, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁-gós, from *pleh₁- (“to fill”).
Phrases
- beaker folk
- Chinese folk religion
- cunning folk
- doom folk
- fairy folk
- feathered folk
- folk art
- folk culture
- folk etymology
- folk medicine
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