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streetfolk

streetfolk noun: people who habitually spend time in the streets, such as public entertainers or the homeless.

Noun

streetfolk pl (plural only)

  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

Origin of streetfolk

From street + folk.

Questions about streetfolk

What does streetfolk mean?
Streetfolk means people who habitually spend time in the streets, such as public entertainers or the homeless.
What part of speech is streetfolk?
Streetfolk is a noun.

Words near streetfolk in the dictionary

  1. streetfight
  2. streetfighter
  3. streetfighters
  4. streetfighting
  5. streetfights
  6. streetfolk
  7. streetfood
  8. streetfoods
  9. streetfront
  10. streetfronts
  11. streetful

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