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Look up: folk

  1. folk
    [n] - people in general
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. folk
    A term applied to any construction which,when used in loosely woven fabrics made from coarse yarns,gives a rough and irregular surface effect.Coloured yarns are commonly used to produce weftway and/or warpway stripes. Category: Various industries and crafts
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  3. Folk
    Folk (fōk), Folks (fōks) , noun collect. & plural [ Anglo-Saxon folc ; akin to Dutch volk , Old Saxon & Old High German folk , German volk , Icelandic fōlk , Swedish & Danish folk , ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/54

  4. folk
    folks 1 common people noun people in general (often used in the plural); `they`re just country folk`; `folks around here drink moonshine`; `the common people determine the group character an...
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  5. Folk
    • (n. collect. & pl.) Alt. of Folks
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  6. folk
    popular, often anonymous sung lyrics that may be passed on by word-of-mouth originally before being compiled by scholars into literary collections.
    Found on http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_r

  7. folk
    • people in general
    • a social division of (usually preliterate) people
    • people descended from a common ancestor
    • the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community

    Found on

  8. Folk
    The English word `Folk` is derived from a Germanic noun, *fulka meaning "people" or "army" (i.e. a crowd as opposed to "a people" in a more abstract sense of clan or tribe). The English word folk has cognates in most of the other Germanic languages....
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk

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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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