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streetfolk en · NOUN

Etymology

From street + folk.

Meanings

  1. (plural, plural-only) People who habitually spend time in the streets, such as public entertainers or the homeless.
    • In between swigs, workers and streetfolk grabbed for the leftovers of these huge royal suppers at special markets set up on the mornings thereafter […] 2014, Veronica Buckley, Madame de Maintenon: The Secret Wife of King Louis XIV:
    • More than 400 of those performances have taken place among Mr. Zeffirelli’s naturalistic sets, depicting a Latin Quarter peopled with crowds of Parisian streetfolk, revelers, merchants and children. 2015 November 24, Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, “Review: Franco Zeffirelli's 'La Bohème' Revisits a Take on Love and Loss”, in New York Times: