Collocations withfolk
These are words often used in combination withfolk.
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common folk
Normally, rich tombs are considered of high rank, whereas pit graves are synonymous with common folk.
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decent folk
All the farms there were small farms with decent folk—families who had been there for generations and who were tenants.
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fisher folk
I do not think it is, and, in this regard, there is the greatest danger to the welfare of our fisher folk.
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folk artist
She has long been acclaimed as a great folk artist, author, painter, researcher and singer.
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folk ballad
Therefore, there is a piece of thrilling folk ballad to make a record of the matter more vividly.
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folk costume
To the early 19th century, culture meant language, race, romanticised history and things like dressing up in supposedly folk costume.
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folk culture
Though diverse in idioms, they all shared a profound involvement with the revival of a folk culture and its assimilation into art music.
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folk dancing
We wanted to introduce folk dancing for the children in our schools.
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folk festival
Haimen folk festival was held, which marked the folk culture developed to a new stage of development.
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folk healers
The influence attained by folk healers was double-edged.
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folk melody
Their collaboration takes the folk melody, creates a variation on it, and sets them to ska rhythms.
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folk musician
One of their great-grandparents was a folk musician of some eminence.
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folk psychology
Given that the belief-holders are ordinary people, they cannot plausibly be assumed to employ anything other than the conceptual apparatus of folk psychology and ontology.
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folk remedy
Chicken soup has also acquired the reputation of a folk remedy for colds and flus, and in many countries is considered a comfort food.
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folk revival
His recording label was not a large enterprise, but it held a prominent position in the urban folk revival environment of the 1950s and 1960s.
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folk wisdom
But instead there grew up a sort of historians' folk wisdom about what "identity" and "national identity" are.
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humble folk
Many, indeed, of the victims are humble folk.
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old folk
That sort of misery, real as it is, is chicken-feed to the miserable misery uncared-for old folk endure all over the land.
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ordinary folk
It also suggests that traditional ways of telling the story overlook what sustains ordinary folk intent on finding religious meaning and identity.
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rural folk
Predictably, apathy was higher among poor and less educated people but, against expectations, rural folk expressed slightly more interest in politics than their urban counterparts.
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