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  • noun Plural form of folkmoot.

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Examples

  • Ever eager to meet somebody new, Carl guested passersby lavishly, and went to the fairs as well as the folkmoots.

    Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983

  • Everyone knew where they sat, what was going on and it was pretty much the same system that had carried us through symposia, folkmoots, parliaments, Star Chambers, pow-wows, conferences and summits.

    Personal finance and money news, analysis and comment | guardian.co.uk Tim Hayward 2010

  • Just as some look on the vigilantes and the miners’ codes as bloodthirsty and antidemocratic, so others, quite the contrary, saw in these institutions the outcroppings of genuine popular justice, an Anglo-Saxon inheritance as old as Teutonic folkmoots, transplanted here to fresher soil.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • Just as some look on the vigilantes and the miners’ codes as bloodthirsty and antidemocratic, so others, quite the contrary, saw in these institutions the outcroppings of genuine popular justice, an Anglo-Saxon inheritance as old as Teutonic folkmoots, transplanted here to fresher soil.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • Just as some look on the vigilantes and the miners’ codes as bloodthirsty and antidemocratic, so others, quite the contrary, saw in these institutions the outcroppings of genuine popular justice, an Anglo-Saxon inheritance as old as Teutonic folkmoots, transplanted here to fresher soil.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

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