landfolk

English

Etymology

Calque of Middle English lond folk or Old English landfolc.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlandˌfəʊk/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlændˌfoʊk/

Noun

landfolk (uncountable)

(literary) The inhabitants of a region, especially if native.
- 1870, William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect; Third Collection‎, second edition, London: John Russell Smith, page iii:
  […] 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 […]
- 1944, William Bedell Stanford, “Undertone”, in Donagh MacDonagh, editor, Poems from Ireland, Dublin: Hely's Limited:
  When 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.
- 1963, Pearl Buck, The Living Reed, New York: John Day Co., OCLC 280743:
  The landfolk of the region had that day brought to the revolutionary court of judgment a young man of handsome and frank countenance.

单词	landfolk
释义	landfolk English Etymology Calque of Middle English lond folk or Old English landfolc. Pronunciation (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlandˌfəʊk/ (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlændˌfoʊk/ Noun landfolk (uncountable) (literary) The inhabitants of a region, especially if native. 1870, William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect; Third Collection‎, second edition, London: John Russell Smith, page iii: […] 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 […] 1944, William Bedell Stanford, “Undertone”, in Donagh MacDonagh, editor, Poems from Ireland, Dublin: Hely's Limited: When 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. 1963, Pearl Buck, The Living Reed, New York: John Day Co., OCLC 280743: The landfolk of the region had that day brought to the revolutionary court of judgment a young man of handsome and frank countenance.
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