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語源

From 古期英語 folcland. Equivalent to folk +‎ land.

名詞

folkland (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 folklands)

1. (law, historical, Britain) Land held in villeinage, being distributed among the folk, or people, at the pleasure of the lord of the manor, and taken back at his discretion.
   • 1889, Hannis Taylor, The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution

     The folkland, the national fund, was administered and conveyed conjointly by the king and the witan.

関連する語

• bookland

参照

• folkland in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

アナグラム

• landfolk