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n. One who lives in the country; a rural dweller.
Usage examples of "countryfolk".
He offered her a small cake of oats and honey, such as the countryfolk placed on the ancient shrines.
The answer was a reference to a dozen unknown place names, for countryfolk identify a road by the nearest villages it serves.
The child had the family nose, beaked and noble if overlarge on such a small face, and the wiry build common to the countryfolk in this desolate region.
She had stood aside for months while the Quman slaughtered her countryfolk and done nothing.
A pious churchman might, who hoped to see them become deacons and fraters in their turn who could minister to their countryfolk and thus bring their heathen relatives into the Light.
Her fight cost me much of my strength, which you and your countryfolk will return to me.
A large number of the countryfolk, however, more curious or less devout than the citizens, gathered round our regiment to see the men who had beaten off the dragoons.
Lungan road had a desperate look, a few traders, anxious gentry in fancy, flower-painted carriages and countryfolk in plain farm carts, or just poor townsmen walking with baskets and bundles.
Her armed countryfolk, all but the soldiers, turned as one mass and butchered the hapless slaves.
He carried a shotgun the way countryfolk do, broken over the crook of an arm, barrel down, stock under his elbow.
It was a brave thing to do, and your countryfolk ought to be proud of you.
The countryfolk maintained that they were the burial houses of the Old Ones, the people or giants, as some would have itthat had held the island long ago, even before the Celts.
However, the same writer made a poem on the tricks of countryfolk, which is by no means devoid of merit.
For five hours I tramped on, keeping to the woods and mountains, not meeting a soul besides a few countryfolk, and turning neither to the right nor left.
No one would survive this battle-not warriors, not countryfolk, not anything on Otaria.