? Obs. Also 9 landsfolk. [OE. landfolc, f. land LAND sb. + folc FOLK. Cf. MHG. lantvolc, G. landvolk.] The people of a land or country.

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c. 1000.  Ælfric, Saints’ Lives (E.E.T.S.), II. 324. Þa … com þæt land-folc to þe þær to lafe wæs þa.

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c. 1205.  Lay., 30930. Þat lond-folc wes bliðe for heore leod-kinge.

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a. 1250.  Owl & Night., 1156. That lond-folc wurth i-dorve.

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 9752. I sal … saue þi land folk al fra wa.

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c. 1425.  Eng. Conq. Irel., xxxvii. 90 (Dubl. MS.). Þe lond-folke, that crysten shold be.

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1865.  Kingsley, Herew., I. xvii. 304. Tosti … went off to the Isle of Wight and forced the landsfolk to give him money.

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