fieldfolk
English
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editfieldfolk pl (plural only)
- labourers who work in the fields.
- 1922, Thomas Hardy, 'In the Small Hours' in Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses, Macmillan, page 181:
- And soon anon came crossing
- The chamber in the gray
- Figures of jigging fieldfolk—
- Saviours of corn and hay
- 1922, Thomas Hardy, 'In the Small Hours' in Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses, Macmillan, page 181: