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Webster 1913 Edition


kinfolk

kin′folkˊ

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Noun.
Relatives; kindred; kin; kinsfolk; persons of the same family or closely related families.

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kinfolk

kinfolk

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kinfolk (countable and uncountable, plural kinfolks)

  1. (US, also in plural) Relatives, relations.
    • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, p. 122:
      ‘You have kinfolks here though. Women. That used to live in this house.’

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