Definition of Folkmot

1. folkmoot [n -S] - See also: folkmoot

Lexicographical Neighbors of Folkmot

folklife
folklike
folklives
folklore
folklores
folkloric
folklorically
folklorish
folklorist
folkloristic
folkloristically
folkloristics
folklorists
folkmoot
folkmoots
folkmot (current term)
folkmote
folkmotes
folkmots
folknik
folkniks
folkred
folkrede
folks
folksier
folksiest
folksily
folksiness
folksinesses
folksinger

Literary usage of Folkmot

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Munimenta Gildhallæ Londoniensis: Liber albus, Liber custumarum, et Liber Horn by Henry Thomas Riley, John Carpenter, London Guildhall, Great Britain Public Record Office, British Library (1860)
"... antiquo Curiam suam, quse vocatur " le folkmot," et Mode of. intrare dictum Campanile ad ... de folkmot. ..."

2. The Saxons in England: A History of the English Commonwealth Till the Period by John Mitchell Kemble (1876)
"Thus, it appears to me, by a natural process did the folkmot or meeting of the nation become converted into a ..."

3. Geoffrey de Mandeville: A Study of the Anarchy by John Horace Round (1892)
"Thus the original territorial system might never have led to a corporate unity. But what the sheriff and the folkmot. could:' not accomplish, the mayor and ..."

4. Diary, of Thomas Burton, Esq. Member in the Parliaments of Oliver and by Thomas Burton, Goddard, Guibon (1828)
"... or the folkmot, according to the extent of his command; being carried upon a shield borne upon their shoulders, like as now Knights of the Shire are. ..."

5. History of Procedure in England from the Norman Conquest: The Norman Period by Melville Madison Bigelow (1880)
"Behind the obscuring veil of the writ process, the ancient formalism of the folkmot, modified somewhat by time, somewhat by the new ..."

6. Anglo-Saxon Superiority: to what it is Due: ("A Quoi Tient la Supériorité by Edmond Demolins (1898)
"Here we have the first and distant manifestation of self- government, and even an embryo Parliament in the reunions of the people (folkmot), and gatherings ..."

Other Resources:

Search for Folkmot on Dictionary.com!Search for Folkmot on Thesaurus.com!Search for Folkmot on Google!Search for Folkmot on Wikipedia!

Search