Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A practice, custom, or belief shared by the members of a group as part of their common culture.
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- noun A
custom orbelief common to members of asociety orculture
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Examples
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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
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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 ...
Archive 2009-01-01 Burke's Corner 2009
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Backdating was evidently a Silicon Valley folkway.
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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
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And thence to the tangled thicket where the folkway cleaves it through,
The House of the Wolfings William Morris 1865
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It is an entrenched North American folkway that kites should fly in March.
Homepage 2010
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Fry does beat him, once, then decides this is one folkway she cannot accept.
PopMatters 2009
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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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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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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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