Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Dwellers in a dale or valley; dalesmen.
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Examples
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To tell the truth, we Cumbrian dalesfolk don't set much by Christmas as a day.
From the archive, 26 December 1903: A farmer's Christmas in the Dales 2011
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Landstrothdale Mr. Speight tells of the extraordinary difficulties of the dalesfolk in the farms and cottages, who were faced with starvation owing to the difficulty of getting in provisions.
Yorkshire Gordon Home 1923
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There is a tough bit of Toryism in the grain of these northern dalesfolk.
A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Hall Caine 1892
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The breezy irony of the dalesfolk did not spare the old man's bent head.
A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Hall Caine 1892
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He heard, as he passed, the gurgling laugh with which the dalesfolk received the peddler's story of how he saw Paul Ritson at Hendon.
A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Hall Caine 1892
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Her white face spoke week by week to the dalesfolk as they sat in their high pews.
Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II Humphry Ward 1885
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With regard to the ministrations of religion, they are in the position of dalesfolk in some parts of Dauphiné.
The Roof of France Matilda Betham-Edwards 1877
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The isolated dwellings of the dalesfolk in the midst of tremendous solitudes -- little pastoral scenes such as Corot loved to paint -- and hemmed round by the sternest, most rugged nature, are one of the characteristics of Vosges scenery.
In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" Matilda Betham-Edwards 1877
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Lorraine before us; close under and around us, many a dell and woodland covert with scattered homes of dalesfolk in sunny places and slanting hills covered with pines.
In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" Matilda Betham-Edwards 1877
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