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folkway - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun
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noun custom or belief common to members of a society or culture
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Its main ambition was to liberate individuals from the arbitrary authority of place, family, and folkway , and to permit them a life of material success amid an economic system that generated an endless bazaar of values ...
Conservatism after the consumer society Burke's Corner 2009
Its main ambition was to liberate individuals from the arbitrary authority of place, family, and folkway , and to permit them a life of material success amid an economic system that generated an endless bazaar of values ...
Archive 2009-01-01 Burke's Corner 2009
Backdating was evidently a Silicon Valley folkway .
A Backdating Sentencing 2007
The same is true of any folkway so long as it is not yet doubted.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875
And thence to the tangled thicket where the folkway cleaves it through,
The House of the Wolfings William Morris 1865
It is an entrenched North American folkway that kites should fly in March.
Homepage 2010
Fry does beat him, once, then decides this is one folkway she cannot accept.
PopMatters 2009
This sort of diversity makes it rather peculiar to speak of a Mid-Atlantic cultural folkway in which Germans, Dutch, Quakers, Roman Catholics, Swedes and Long Island Yankees can be thrown together into one pot.
Gene Expression 2008
This sort of diversity makes it rather peculiar to speak of a Mid-Atlantic cultural folkway in which Germans, Dutch, Quakers, Roman Catholics, Swedes and Long Island Yankees can be thrown together into one pot.
Gene Expression 2008
This sort of diversity makes it rather peculiar to speak of a Mid-Atlantic cultural folkway in which Germans, Dutch, Quakers, Roman Catholics, Swedes and Long Island Yankees can be thrown together into one pot.
Gene Expression 2008
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