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folks

/foʊks/ noun C2
  1. Late 19th and early 20th century migrants to California from Iowa and other parts of the Midwestern United States.
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Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 1 · C1
How are all your folks?”
Anne of Green Gables, p. 5 · C1
We heard last week she was going, so we sent her word by Richard Spencer’s folks at Carmody to bring us a smart, likely boy of about ten or eleven.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 7 · C1
Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 20 · C1

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