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folk|fəʊk|
Forms: 1–2 folc (pl. folc), 2 folche, Orm. follc, follk, 3 folck, south. volck, 3–4 folc, south. volc, volk, 3–6 folke, 3–8 fok(e, (5 fokke), 6 folck(e, 8 Sc. fouk, 3– folk. Also 3–4 weak. gen. folken(e.
[OE. folc str. neut. = OFris. folk, OS. folc (Du. volk), OHG. folc neut., masc. (MHG. volc neut., masc., mod.Ger. volk neut.), ON. folk neut., people, army, detachment (Sw., Da. folk):—OTeut. *folkom. The original sense is perh. best preserved in ON.; cf. OSl. plŭkŭ (Russ. polk) division of an army, Lith. pulkas crowd, which are believed to be early adoptions from Teut.
The view of some scholars, that the Teut. word and the L. vulgus both descend from a common type *qolgos, is very doubtful.]
1. a. A people, nation, race, tribe. Obs. exc. arch.
Beowulf 1582 (Gr.) He..sloh..folces Deniᵹea fyftyne men. c1000ælfric Gen. xxv. 23 Twa folc beoþ todæled on þe, & þæt folc oferswið þæt oþer folc. 1297R. Glouc. (1724) 3 Brytones were þe firste folc þat to Engelond come. 1388Wyclif John xi. 48 Romayns schulen come, and schulen take our place and oure folk. 1535Coverdale 2 Esdras v. 26 Amonge all y⊇ multitudes of folkes thou hast gotten the one people. 1850Neale Med. Hymns (1867) 24 Met Thee with Palms in their hands that day the folk of the Hebrews.
b. transf. of animals. (After the Vulg. and Heb.)
1382Wyclif Prov. xxx. 26 A litil hare, a folc vnmyȝti. 1535Coverdale ibid., The conyes are but a feble folke [so 1611 and 1885(R.V.)].
2. a. An aggregation of people in relation to a superior, e.g. God, a king or priest; the great mass as opposed to an individual; the people; the vulgar. Obs. exc. arch.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. xxx. §1 Forþæm is ðæs folces hlisa ælcum men for nauht to habbenne. 971Blickl. Hom. 35 Swa swa ᵹeara beboden wæs Godes folce. c1250Gen. & Ex. 2785 Ic haue min folkes pine soȝen. a1300Cursor M. 12838 (Cott.) Ion..said þat all þaa fok moght here, þis es [etc.]. c1375Lay Folks Mass Bk. (MS. B) 43 Til alle þo folk he [preste] shryues him þare of alle his synnes. 1483Caxton G. de la Tour E vii b, The said hoost of the Hebreux..were al folke of god. 1549–62Sternhold & H. Ps. c. 247 We are his folke, he doth vs feede. 1863Longfellow Wayside Inn, Olaf vii, Choose ye between two things, my folk. 1886Academy 7 Aug. 85/2 It..did not hold back the Bible from the folk.
†b. (also pl.) Retainers, followers; servants, workpeople. Obs.
c1205Lay. 433 Þa lette he riden vnirimed folc. a1400–50Alexander 3053 Dary..seȝis his foke faile. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 377 He founde it kept by the Erle of Darbyes folkes. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) ii. 71 b, Least my folkes labouring in some of them should come into the rest, contrarie to my pleasure. 1581G. Pettie tr. Guazzo's Civ. Conv. (1586) iii. 170 The maister of the house..ought..to shewe himselfe more seuere towards his owne folke, then towards others. 1632J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 68 Wherein (wanting so many of your folke) you could not have defended your selfe.
3. a. Men, people indefinitely. Also, people of a particular class, which is indicated by an adj. or some attributive phrase.
From 14th c. onward the pl. has been used in the same sense, and since 17th c. is the ordinary form, the sing. being arch. or dial. The word is now chiefly colloq., being superseded in more formal use by people.
O.E. Chron. an. 999 Þa elkede man fram dæᵹe to dæᵹe, & swencte þæt earme folc þe on ðam scipon lagon. a1225Ancr. R. 156 Vor te biweopen isleien uolc—þet is, mest al þe world. 1340Ayenb. 139 Þe benes and þe oreysons of guode uolke. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xv. 360 Now failleth þe folke of þe flode And of þe londe bothe. c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 2035 Upon the steedes, that weren grete and white, Ther seeten folk. 1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton) ii. xlv. (1859) 51 Now beholde, and see with goode auysement vpon these folkes. c1430Diatorie in Babees Bk. 58 With .iij. maner of folk be not at debate: First with þi bettir. 1450–1530Myrr. our Ladye 311 The masse crede is to be sayd when folcke lye a dyenge. a1500Gregory's Chron. (Camd. Soc.) 155 Summys of v c men of armys or of folke of schotte [orig. gens de trait, i.e. archers]. 1565T. Stapleton Fortr. Faith. 126 Howseling of Christen folcke before deathe. 1619Crt. & Times Jas. I (1849) II. 186 They played three pieces glick, as ordinary folks use to play twopenny glick. 1710Swift Lett. (1767) III. 71, I have heard wise folks say, An ill tongue may do much. 1727A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. I. xxiv. 297 There were Folks killed in 1723. 1756M. Calderwood Jrnl. (1884) 83, I could not speak to the folks and ask questions. 1774A. Adams in J. Q. Adams' Fam. Lett. (1876) 49 Some folks say I grow very fat. 1774Franklin Wks. 1887 V. 414 It was the ton with the ministerial folks to abuse them. 1775Johnson Let. to Mrs. Thrale 11 June, Folks want me to go to Italy. 1845S. Austin Ranke's Hist. Ref. II. 29 He is unkind to the poor folk. 1870Rossetti Poems 100 A decree..Whereby all banished folk might win Free pardon. 1871Smiles Charac. i. (1876) 25 The character of a nation is not to be learnt from its fine folks. 1879Browning Martin Relph 119 It was hard to get at the folks in power. 1882Ouida Maremma I. 23 The hearts of the folk in Grosseto were sad for his fate.
b. Individual persons; individuals.
c1450Bk. Curtasye 546 in Babees Bk., Thes thre folke and no mo. 1504Burv Wills (Camden) 97 Substancyall folkys of the seid parych. 1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 35 Three folkes, viz. two men and a wooman. 1833H. Martineau Berkeley the Banker i. ii. 31 To think it prudent for these young folks to settle.
c. folk of peace [mistranslation of Gael. daoine sídhe, lit. people of the fairy hill (cf. Ir. bean sídhe banshee), by confusion with síthe, gen. of síth peace]: fairy folk, fairies. Sc.[1691R. Kirk Secret Commonwealth (1815) 30 The Seers avouch, that severalls who go to the Siths, (or People at Rest, and, in respect of us, in Peace,) before the natural Period of their Lyfe expyre, do frequently appear to them. 1841H. Miller Old Red Sandstone xi. 215 ‘Not of the race of Adam,’ said the creature, turning for a moment in its saddle: ‘the People of Peace shall never more be seen in Scotland.’ 1900J. G. Campbell Superstitions Highlands & Islands Scotland i. 1 The Fairy or Elfin people, or, as they are called both in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, the sìth people, that is, ‘the people of peace’, the ‘still folk’, or ‘silently-moving’ people.] 1875Encycl. Brit. II. 203/2 The Highlanders call them the folk of peace. 1893R. L. Stevenson Catriona i. i, I am nameless, like the Folk of Peace.
4. a. pl. (exc. dial.) The people of one's family, parents, children, relatives.
1715Pattern to true love in Halliwell Yorksh. Anthol. (1851) 414 Our folks will angry be I fear. 1776J. Q. Adams in Fam. Lett. (1876) 203 All that I could learn of you and my little folks. 1828Carr Craven Gloss., (ed. 2) Folk, family. ‘How's yower folk’. 1833H. Martineau Loom & Lugger i. i. 15 Your young folks are flourishing, I hope.
b. dial. Friends, intimates.
1854Baker Northampt. Words, s.v., ‘We're not folks now.’ 1881Leicestersh. Gloss., s.v., ‘They'd use to be such folks.’
5. a. attrib. and Comb., as † folk-king, † folk-need.
Beowulf 2873 (Gr.) Nealles *folc-cyning fyrdᵹesteallum gylpan þorfte. c1205Lay. 9501 Fareð swide aᵹe, to þan folc-kinge.
c1000Ags. Ps. lxxvii[i]. 14 Him ealle niht, oðer beacen, fyres leoma, *folc nede heold.
b. esp. in numerous mod. Combs. (formed after Ger. precedent) with the sense ‘of, pertaining to, current or existing among, the people; traditional, of the common (local) people, esp. opp. sophisticated, cosmopolitan’; as folk-art, folk-artist, folk-belief, folk-comedy, folk-culture, folk-custom, folk-drama, folk-epic, folk-hero, folk-legend, folk-life, folk-literature, folk-medicine, folk-mind, folk-museum, folk-name, folk-poem, folk-poetry, folk-rhyme, folk-speech, folk-tale, folk-tradition, etc.
1921Art & Archæol. XI. 185 (title) *Folk art. 1938Encycl. Brit. Bk. of Yr. 476/2 A quiet growth of more spontaneous painting, some of it idyllic and reminiscent of folk art. 1967E. Short Embroidery & Fabric Collage ii. 41 A more recent tradition in dress which could be classed as folk art is that of the pearly kings and queens.
1934Hound & Horn July–Sept. 589 The spirit of a folk school of music so excites the *folk artist that [etc.]. 1959Times 11 Dec. 16/2 He [sc. Barrie] remains a folk-artist.
1892G. L. Gomme Ethnol. in Folklore v. 123 These ghastly ceremonies throw much light on the old *folk-belief as to the dead. 1922W. B. Yeats Trembling of Veil 243 Folk-belief, tales of the fairies. 1933E. K. Chambers Eng. Folk-Play 216 A folk-belief may..explain the singular passage..in which the Fool..beholds his own face.
1952D. Hoffman Paul Bunyan iv. 73 The authors..can dramatize *folk comedy by contrasting it with the standards of cultivated society.
1936Discovery Mar. 95/2 The volume is an important contribution to the study of European *folk-culture. 1963Auden Dyer's Hand 300 The beast in it [sc. fable] may be a folk-culture hero whose qualities of courage or cunning are to be imitated. 1964Gould & Kolb Dict. Social Sci. 272/1 A folk culture..is a culture in which behaviour is highly conventionalized, personal, based on kinship, and controlled informally, traditionally, and through the ‘sacred’.
1917W. B. Yeats in Lett. J. Joyce (1966) II. 405 We do not play the *folk drama very well. 1961Times 23 May 15/1 Ballad and folk-drama.
1904C. G. Child Beowulf p. v, Great indeed would have been our loss, if..the only remaining *folk-epic of the Germanic peoples, had perished in doing menial service to grocer or soap-seller. 1950John o' London's 24 Nov. 629/1 A great folk-epic about the Cid Campeador.
1850N. & Q. 1st Ser. II. 99/2, I believe that one item of *folk-faith is that farm-yard odours are healthy.
1899Folk-lore X. iv. 407 The *folk-heroes Hari Chand and Raja Amba. 1927J. L. Brooks (title of unpubl. thesis) Paul Bunyan: American Folk Hero. 1932Q. D. Leavis Fiction & Reading Public ii. i. 92 The traditional folk-heroes like Crispine and Crispianus, Simon Eyre, and the Six Worthy Yeomen of the West. 196020th Cent. Dec. 557 Blues-singers..sanctified by white jazz intellectuals into folk-heroes. 1971P. Driscoll White Lie Assignment xiii. 103 A guerilla in the new folk-hero style.
1909A. Herbert Isle of Man vii. 101 Around..the golden plover..is hung one of the prettiest of the *folk-legends abounding in the isle.
1864Reader 1 Oct. 407 The minute notices concerning medicine [etc.]..that are scattered through the pages of our mediaeval biographers will increase our knowledge of the *folk-life of the past. 1923W. B. Yeats Plays & Controversies 210 We thought we could bring the old folk-life to Dublin. 1955A. Lomax Mister Jelly Roll (ed. 3) p. xv, It is within the folklife of these Creoles that the emotional character of hot jazz is to be found. 1966G. E. Evans Pattern under Plough 21 Folk-life implies a holistic approach whose main definition is not in method but in the field of study.
1893W. B. Yeats Celtic Twilight 201 Irish *folk-literature.
1898E. Clodd Tom Tit Tot vi. 61 *Folk-medicine, the wide world through, is full of prescriptions based on sympathetic or antipathetic magic. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Aug. 605/1 In this book an attempt is made to resuscitate and standardize much forgotten folk medicine. 1968Times 3 Dec. 10/7 Yet another piece of folk medicine seems to have been vindicated in the laboratory.
1899Folk-Lore X. iv. 385 The surest way therefore of projecting oneself into the *folk-mind..is..to take up the various points as they have seemed to grow one out of the other in folk-logic and processes of thought. 1924P. C. Buck Scope of Music ix. 116 The composer, if it is the work of one man, or the folk-mind, if it is the result of the friction of use, knew better. 1957Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Nov. 656/3 It is hard..to think of Loki as other than fundamentally malignant, and very hard to think of the folk-mind, even over centuries, turning him into a sympathetic comic figure.
1936M. Allis Eng. Prelude xxiv. 258 In Strangers' Hall and Suckling House Norwich offers the most complete, if not the only, *folk museums in England. 1966P. V. Price France 126 Collections of objects connected with wine and food..are frequently found in folk museums.
1924Mawer & Stenton Introd. Surv. Eng. Place-Names iii. 50 These names are important as a link between the *folk-names and place-names restricted to some particular spot. 1960P. H. Reaney Orig. Eng. Place-Names vi. 99 The earliest place-names created by the Anglo-Saxons were not originally place-names in the strict sense of the word; they were folk-names.
1940Horizon Mar. 170 A real *folk-poem, it was in its way a work of art. 1963Times 18 July 5/3 A suite of old folk-poems about Charity as exemplified in the tale of Dives and Lazarus.
1892S. A. Brooke Hist. Early Eng. Lit. I. 90 As to the spears singing..that is a common phrase in ancient *folk-poetry. 1903L. F. Anderson Anglo-Saxon Scop 10 Mone..states his belief that we have in the..passage a reference to Germanic folk-poetry. 1923A. Huxley On Margin 54 The Folk Poetry of 1920 may best be classified according to subject-matter. 1965G. McInnes Road to Gundagai xvi. 280 The earthy folk-poetry of C. J. Dennis.
1889Chambers's Jrnl. VI. 670/1 English *folk-rhymes are very numerous and curious. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. xv. 333 The future is worked out with the aid of an old folk rhyme.
1891Athenæum 10 Oct. 486/3 Those who believe in the origin of *folk-tales from the cultured. 1935R. Girvan Beowulf & 7th Cent. 82 In Beowulf the folk⁓tale is the story: all the rest is incidental.
1950M. J. C. Hodgart Ballads v. 110 There were poets of taste who were close enough to *folk-tradition to be able to adapt it without making it look literary. 1971Guardian 3 July 8/5 We [sc. Londoners] 've got so much more folk tradition than most places.
1880J. Geikie Prehist. Europe 9 One of those great *folk-waves which have successively swept over Europe.
6. a. Special comb.: folk-blues [blues], the original ‘blues’ of the Negroes of the southern U.S., as opposed to composed imitations; so folk-jazz; folk-dance, a dance of popular origin; the music for such a dance; also folk-dance v. intr., folk-dancer; folk-dancing vbl. n.; folk-etymology, usually, the popular perversion of the form of words in order to render it apparently significant; folkfest chiefly N. Amer. [fest], a festival of folk songs and other elements of folk culture; folk-free a., having the rights of a freeman; folk high school [tr. Da. folkehøjskole], a school of adult education, originating in Denmark, now also in other Scandinavian countries; folk-law (usu. in pl.), a customary law of the people, applied esp. to the Leges Barbarorum, the laws of the Germanic peoples; folk-leasing (OE. Law), public lying, slander; folk-memory, recollection of the past persisting among a people or group; folk-music, music of popular origin; hence folk-musician; so folk-tune; ˈfolknik [after beatnik], a devotee of folk-music; also attrib.; folk-play, a traditional type of play; so folk-player; folk-psychology [tr. G. völkerpsychologie] = ethnopsychology; so folk-psychologist; folk-singer, a singer of folk-songs; so folk-singing; folk-stead (see quot. 1876); folkway (usu. in pl.), the traditional behaviour of a people or group; folk weave, folkweave (see quot. 1960); also attrib.
1926A. Niles in W. C. Handy Blues 3 Some *folk-blues were love songs. 1959‘F. Newton’ Jazz Scene vi. 99 The anonymity and impersonal grandeur of the folk-blues.
1909E. Burchenal (title) *Folk-dances and singing games. 1912C. J. Sharp Folk Dancing in Schools 4 The three main types of folk-dance found in England are:—(1) The Morris Dance. (2) The Sword Dance. (3) The Country Dance. 1927Observer 2 Oct. 19/4 He defied anyone who folk-danced to be unhappy. 1954M. Ewer Heart Untouched v. 77 Do they folk-dance? Do they make ghastly things in raffia? 1967Chujoy & Manchester Dance Encycl. 370/2 In N.Y. alone there are enough folk dance sessions to offer anyone an opportunity to join in folk-dancing almost every day of the week.
1936Discovery Dec. 396/2 The Portuguese folk-singers, folk-players, and *folk-dancers go through their traditional performances with a complete lack of self consciousness.
1907*Folk-dancing [see folk-singing]. 1908Amer. Physical Educ. Rev. Oct. 375 The place of folk dancing. 1927Observer 2 Oct. 19/4 If there was more singing of the old songs and more folk-dancing.
1883G. Stephens S. Bugge's Stud. on N. Mythol. 28 It does not mend the matter, if, when we have no better argument, we call it *folk-etymology.
1963Variety 7 Aug. 2/4 (heading) Newport *Folk Fest's P[ublic] D[omain] & Civil Rights overtones stir Attorney John Clark. 1968Guardian 8 Apr. 1/3 The Mayors have set a curfew..and there are no theatres,..banquets, dances, and folkfests. 1975Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 24 June 18/2 Folkfest is part of July 1 events... Songs and dances from around the world will be performed.
a1000Laws Wihtræd §8 Gif man his mæn an wiofode freols ᵹefe, se sie *folcfry. 1820Scott Ivanhoe xxxii, Folkfree and Sacless art thou in town and from town.
1914U.S. Bureau of Education Bull. no. xxii. 1914 (title) The Danish *Folk High Schools. 1949E. L. Allen Bishop Grundtvig vii. 82 A large proportion of the heads of folk high-schools to-day are men with a theological training. 1966D. Jenkins Educated Society iii. 125 The Folk High School movement obviously has achieved a great success in the predominantly agrarian communities of Scandinavia.
1950A. Lomax Mister Jelly Roll (1952) 185 Linking the *folk-jazz half-world to the super-respectable and stuffy world of the music business.
1884Academy 23 Feb. 126/1 *Folk-law is astonishingly conservative. 1898E. Jenks Law & Politics Middle Ages ii. 32 While France and Germany have their feudal laws..England is still in the twilight of the folk-laws. 1962H. R. Loyn Anglo-Saxon England iv. 175 It is not a mere quibble..to question a sharp cleavage between ideas of royal law and folk-law.
a1000Laws ælf. §32 Gif mon *folc-leasunge ᵹewyrce..him mon aceorfe þa tungan. 1771Burke Powers of Juries in Prosecutions Wks. X. 114 An offence of this species, called Folk-leasing.
1908W. Johnson (title) *Folk-memory; or, The continuity of British archæology. 1939R. G. Collingwood Autobiogr. xi. 143 ‘Folk-memory’..the transmission by example and precept of certain ways of thinking and acting from generation to generation. 1960K. M. Kenyon Archæol. in Holy Land viii. 208 The length of folk memory, though it may be reasonably accurate as to the occurrence of important events, is short as regards chronological exactitude.
1889G. B. Shaw London Music 1888–89 (1937) 79 All good ‘*folk music’ is as international as the story of Jack the Giant Killer. 1907C. J. Sharp Eng. Folk-Song p. ix, It is impossible to say how far the folk-music that has survived in a county like Somerset is..truly representative of English folk-song as a whole. 1971Guardian 3 July 8/1 Cecil Sharp deliberately looked for English folk music in other countries, especially America.
1907C. J. Sharp Eng. Folk-Song 34 The *folk-musician..is under no such temptation [to make music for the sake of making it]. 1941L. MacNeice Poetry of Yeats viii. 165 A poet of the folk-musician type.
1958in Amer. Speech (1966) XLI. 139 In Greenwich Village..lies the Folklore Center..near the door is the lettering ‘Israel G. Young’... Invariably, *folkniks (to quote Izzy) are present, for this den is the meeting place..for New York's up and coming folksingers and hangers on. 1961McLean's 25 Mar. 18/1 He is exhibiting with increasing frequency in the circle of Toronto restaurants and coffee houses known locally as folknik spots. 1963Observer 8 Sept. 12/6 Folkniks..are the adherents, mostly teenaged, of the new-style folk⁓song movement—an austere group who prefer their songs unaccompanied... In the spreading folknik clubs, amplifiers are forbidden.
1905Westm. Gaz. 7 Apr. 12/1 This pageant, which takes the form of a *folk-play specially written and invented by Mr. Louis N. Parker, deals with the chief events in the history of the town. 1933E. K. Chambers (title) The English folk play. 1969in Halpert & Story Christmas Mumming in Newfoundland 59 An attempt to write the detailed history of the folk play must await the results of current investigations.
1936*Folk-player [see folk-dancer].
1889Cent. Dict., *Folk-psychology. 1918R. S. Woodworth Dynamic Psychol. i. 12 In the sixties, there was even published for several years in Germany a journal of ‘folk psychology’. Ibid. 13 The methods and presuppositions of the older folk psychologists have not stood the test of time. 1957J. S. Huxley Relig. without Revelation v. 108 Explanations of the origin of religion in terms of animism or magic or folk psychology.
1898Folk-lore IX. i. 49 The sagas..died out because there were no *folk-singers qualified to present them. 1927Observer 12 June 13/2 Altogether more than fifty folk-singers and craft workers hailing from all parts of French Canada were gathered together. 1961Guardian 9 May 7/2 The white folk-singers of the southern back⁓woods.
1907C. J. Sharp Eng. Folk-Song p. viii, Only those, perhaps, who have been brought into close contact with the old folk-singers of to-day, can fully realize how intimately *folk-singing and folk-dancing have..been bound up with the social life of the English village. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 30 Apr. 344/4 The free rhythm and florid ornament..characteristic of Greek folk-singing. 1934W. B. Yeats King of Gt. Clock Tower 18 Her method was ‘folk-singing’ or allied to it. 1971Guardian 3 July 8/2 Purists..regard the folk-singing..as being ‘impure’.
a1000Beowulf 76 Þa ic wide ᵹefræᵹn..maniᵹre mæᵹþe..*folcstede frætwian. 1876Mid-Yorks. Gloss., Folkstead, an out-door place of assembly for general purposes. ‘The chapel wouldn't hold them all, so they made a folkstead of the garth.’
1907C. J. Sharp Eng. Folk-Song p. x, The *folk-tune presents many problems of absorbing interest to the musical theorist. 1914― Folk Singing in Schools 5 The folk-tunes which have recently been collected from the English peasantry. 1957Manvell & Huntley Technique Film Music ii. 51 A glimpse of a folk-tune is sometimes heard on French horns.
1907W. G. Sumner Folkways p. iii, I formed the word ‘*folkways’ on the analogy of words already in use in sociology... Folkways are habits of the individual and customs of the society which arise from efforts to satisfy needs... Then they become regulative for succeeding generations and take on the character of a social force. 1925W. P. Montague Ways of Knowing v. 142 There are cases when a ‘folkway’ or social habit becomes actively evil. 1959G. D. Mitchell Sociol. v. 78 Customs may be differentiated into folkways and mores. 1964Gould & Kolb Dict. Social Sci. 273/2 Folkways are the learned shared behaviour common to a people. 1971E. Fenwick Impeccable People iii. 17 He had learned to swallow the folkways of Parsons Point.
1938Decorative Art 50 The gaily striped *folk-weaves on sofas. 1939Soft Furnishing in Workroom 10 Brown/Beige Folkweave Fabric..for Loose Cover. 1949E. Coxhead Wind in West v. 123 Her three-piece leatherette suite, her beige and orange folk⁓weave curtains. 1960Textile Terms & Defs. (ed. 4) 70 Folk weave, n. or adj., a term applied to any construction which, when used in loosely woven fabrics made from coarse yarns, gives a rough and irregular surface effect.
b. Short for folk-music. So folk-rock, folk-music with a strong beat; folk club, etc.
1963Observer 8 Sept. 12/7 MacColl learnt folk at his mother's knee, felt people should know their own music. 1965New Society 20 May 26/3 There are..as many as 300 folk clubs..all over Britain..most of them grouped around a resident singer or group. 1966Time 1 July 50 The folk-rock movement. 1966Guardian 22 Dec. 4/7 In the pop/folk field the best new release is by The Incredible String Band. 1969Down Beat 17 Apr. 24/2 The lyrics are characterized by the self-consciously whimsical or ironic or nouveau-romantic trends of folk-rock at its worst. 1971Melody Maker 18 Sept. 36/1 The Crown is one of the foremost folk clubs in Edinburgh. Ibid. 36/3 It's still one of the best places in the country for folk in terms of performance and audience reaction.
▸ folkcraft n. the making of traditional objects, usually by hand or by traditional methods; objects so made.
1884Folk-lore Jrnl. 2 312 *Folk-craft, corresponding to the study of art and industry. 1924Chambers's Jrnl. Dec. 769/1 It must be one of those elaborate pieces of folk-craft in which the Bretons delight. 1984Sojourner (Nexis) 20 Apr. 24 The arpilleras are works of art rooted in the popular tradition of folkcraft and nourished by a particular reality: a country invaded. 2003Smithsonian July 48/1 Eventually, I repair to a teahouse called Dadamsun, on a narrow, curving street hard by Insadong, a district famous for art galleries and shops selling folkcraft. |