What is "womenfolk"

Usage examples of "womenfolk".

Three or four times I contrived to tail the womenfolk, but I was no more welcome a tagalong than a flasher on an outing of Camp Fire Girls.

Martha Wright came from one of those stubbornly recusant families in Yorkshire, whose womenfolk were celebrated for their constancy.

And to conquer Ratharryn, Scathel, will take all our men, and who will stay here to protect our womenfolk?

But by and by, as said, this evening after sundown, the wind sitting in the west, biggish swollen clouds to be seen as the night increased and the weatherwise poring up at them and some sheet lightnings at first and after, past ten of the clock, one great stroke with a long thunder and in a brace of shakes all scamper pellmell within door for the smoking shower, the men making shelter for their straws with a clout or kerchief, womenfolk skipping off with kirtles catched up soon as the pour came.

Northumberland is overpersuaded by his womenfolk and turns to caution again.

The real interests of the great industrialist or financier lie in cosmopolitan organization and the material development of the world commonweal, but his womenfolk pin flags all over him, and his sons are prepared to sacrifice themselves and all his business creations for the sake of trite splendours and Ruritanian romance.

Sermon that the womenfolk of the Sugg family were short-lived but the men came from much tougher stock for Flash, his father, was now well into his seventies but still active, alert and ready to retire to bed on a quart of beer, a whole rice pudding and half a jar of pickled onions.

No need to disrupt things and get the womenfolks and children in a panic.

Folks is always carrying on about how lonely it must be for womenfolk in them awful islands, rain and mud and nothing but skeeters and sand flies to keep you company.

But by and by, as said, this evening after sundown, the wind sitting in the west, biggish swollen clouds to be seen as the night increased and the weatherwise poring up at them and some sheet lightnings at first and after, past ten of the clock, one great stroke with a long thunder and in a brace of shakes all scamper pellmell within door for the smoking shower, the men making shelter for their straws with a clout or kerchief, womenfolk skipping off with kirtles catched up soon as the pour came.

The womenfolk called the men to tables where steaming mounds of crisply browned brrnas awaited the hearty appetites.

The second floor of one of the secondary brochs, it was more a large suite than a hall, a sign that the tieryns of Dun Gwerbyn could support their womenfolk in luxury.

Long enough, for example, to let Lord Culter and Tom Erskine with their men, however few, ride back to the defence of Stirling, their two Queens, their womenfolk.

A man doesn't really know when womenfolks are at outs and when they're not.

Ford Childress joined us womenfolk halfway through the chicken gumbo.