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Definition of Townfolk
1. the inhabitants of a town [n]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Townfolk
Literary usage of Townfolk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Holiday on the Road: An Artist's Wanderings in Kent, Sussex, and Surrey by James John Hissey (1887)
"... Past and Present—A Team of Oxen—Primitive Ploughs—A Farmer's Opinion
of 'townfolk' —Exploring the Downs—Their Solitude and Silence—A Lonely Spot—An ..."
2. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1905)
"But yet was one man silent; grim grew his swarthy face, For long had he served
Jarl Eric, and he deemed it high disgrace That before the Bergen townfolk, ..."
3. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1893)
"Still they are not cheats like the townfolk. They are naturally honest, simple,
... The townfolk are not the tenth of the countrymen ; yet town fashions ..."
4. Royal Windsor by William Hepworth Dixon (1879)
"these townfolk cried aloud, ' why are you driving him ? What evil has he done ?
Let him alone. He is a priest and an archbishop. He is the son of a king, ..."
5. Royal Windsor by William Hepworth Dixon (1879)
"The streets through which he had to pass between the priory and the castle hill,
were lined with townfolk who seemed horrified by the scene. ' 0 knaves ! ..."
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