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ˈcountry-ˌfolk
Also -folks.
a. People of the (same) country; countrymen, compatriots: usually with possessive; cf. country 13. Obs. exc. dial.
b. Inhabitants of the rural parts.
1547–64Bauldwin Mor. Philos. (Palfr.) i. li, Surely strangers would haue lesse mercy on mee then mine owne country-folke. 1548Udall Erasm. Par., Luke Pref. 3 Your..charitie and zele towardes your countrey folkes. 1626J. Pory in Ellis Orig. Lett. i. 331 III. 239 Thrust them and all their countryfolkes out of the Queens lodgings. 1719De Foe Crusoe (1840) II. iv. 95 Though the savages were their own country-folks, yet they were most terribly afraid of them. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xxxv, Which at once acknowledged the connection betwixt them as country-folk.
b.1862London Rev. 30 Aug. 179 The townsfolk and countryfolk of Derbyshire. |