"folk-way" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: folk-ways [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} folk-way (plural folk-ways)
  1. Alternative form of folkway Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: folkway
    Sense id: en-folk-way-en-noun-qMI5uhqb Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1925, Dorothy Scarborough, assisted by Ola Lee Gulledge, “Children’s Game-songs”, in On the Trail of Negro Folk-songs, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 129:",
          "text": "By the time you are grown up and can consider the folk-ways of your childhood with detached impersonality, you have forgotten what was of most value. Rarely will a child tell frankly of his lore, and rarely can an adult remember.",
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        {
          "ref": "1967, Neill H. Alford, Jr., “Economic Warfare as a Primary Policy Device”, in Modern Economic Warfare: (Law and the Naval Participant) (Navpers 15031; International Law Studies 1963; LVI), Newport, R.I.: Naval War College; Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, part II (The Naval Participant in Economic Warfare), pages 240–241:",
          "text": "The restricted sustentive range of manipulations of foreign aid in economic warfare is especially marked. This is due to the state of the domestic law concerning foreign aid; \"reciprocal controls\" which a recipient state can exert; and a \"folk way\" expectation of economic aid flowing from centers of great productivity, such as the United States, the Soviet Union, and the countries of Western Europe. This folk-way expectation has emerged as a postulate of an obligation to supply the \"needs of the needy\" upon which foreign aid reasoning in both donor and recipient states tends to be founded.",
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          "text": "The restricted sustentive range of manipulations of foreign aid in economic warfare is especially marked. This is due to the state of the domestic law concerning foreign aid; \"reciprocal controls\" which a recipient state can exert; and a \"folk way\" expectation of economic aid flowing from centers of great productivity, such as the United States, the Soviet Union, and the countries of Western Europe. This folk-way expectation has emerged as a postulate of an obligation to supply the \"needs of the needy\" upon which foreign aid reasoning in both donor and recipient states tends to be founded.",
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