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folker en · NOUN

Etymology

From folk + -er.

Meanings

  1. A performer of folk music.
    • ...Scotland's finest modern folkers King Creosote and James Yorkston... 2007, David Else, Great Britain, page 701:
    • BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE (Monday) This 1960s protest folker and longtime champion of American Indian rights will surely sing “Now That the Buffalo’s Gone” and “Until It’s Time for You to Go,” and maybe even “Cod’ine,” which became a garage-rock standard. 2007 June 15, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times:

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