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n. A custom or belief common to members of a society or culture

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Being Olivia, she immediately presented her credentials as an amateur student of old folkways and preservationist of endangered cultural treasures.

And thence to the tangled thicket where the folkway cleaves it through, To the eastern edge of Mid-mark where the Bearings deal and do.

Pleased with their ferocious folkways, she had joined the game with no weapons save her own transvolutionary gifts, shifting just outside their space to make herself invisible in ambush, levitating in pursuit, killing with her nimbus.

He had become sophisticated in the folkways of this planet, enough not to attract attention, and even had a new ID card, quite as good as a real one.

Christianity, or of Western civilization, or of Indo-European folkways, or of Anglo-American culture.

The ancient folkways of England called to them, albeit the call came ever more and more faintly since the war, as the plowlands grew depleted of their young blood and the new generation swarmed over the cities instead.

Reichart Station would be a community of its own, with its own customs and folkways, by now.

It had actually been interesting to live among the northern Indigenes, not just a fugitive but also an observer studying the folkways of this intelligent and appealing race, but that was over, now.

The only good thing from the relationship was a paper I wrote about the psychology of the football team as a cultural entity with its own folkways and all that stuff.

First, here is that astringent graphic commentator on the contemporary mores and folkways of these United States, the inimitable Joe Chuck.

I dreamed of field trips, collecting myths and grammars and folkways and artifacts and all that, until when I was twenty-five I finally got out into the field and started to discover I had gone into a dead science.