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elle-folk

elle-folk noun: elle-people.

Noun

elle-folk pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) elle-people
    • "We're none of the elle-folk who dance in the hills and weave fates, ye mun go to them for that."1860, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, Sir Rohan's Ghost: A Romance, Boston: J.E. Tilton and Co., page 293
    • Still the Elle-folk are often mentioned in the legends he proceeds to give as inhabiting houes, notwithstanding an explicit opening statement that they ‘dwell in the Elle-mosses,’ and notwithstanding the fact also that the so-called Elle-kone of the houes seems evidently to want the hollow back.1865 November, J[ohn] C[hristopher] Atkinson, “Comparative Danish and Northumbrian Folk Lore. […] Chapter VII. Elle Folk.”, in The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Younger Members of the...

Origin of elle-folk

From Danish ellefolk.

Questions about elle-folk

What does elle-folk mean?
Elle-folk means elle-people.
What part of speech is elle-folk?
Elle-folk is a noun.

Words near elle-folk in the dictionary

  1. Ellason
  2. Ellaswood
  3. Ellatifi
  4. Ellaville
  5. Elle
  6. elle-folk
  7. elle-maid
  8. elle-maids
  9. elle-people
  10. Elleard
  11. elleber

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