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Surely she can afford to keep something for her painters and her poets, and even for the humble holiday-folks who come to drink tea at Rufus's stone.
Vixen, Volume I. 1875
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The rear was brought up by a crush of carriages and carts, raising clouds of dust in their efforts to overtake the horses in front, adorned with green branches and crammed with merry holiday-folks with bright, streaming neckerchiefs.
A Hungarian Nabob M��r J��kai 1864
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(pl. noun) - People without the ties of business. --Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1896-1905
April 23, 2018