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folkway definition

☆ folk·way (-wā′)

noun

any way of thinking, feeling, behaving, etc. common to members of the same social group

Etymology: first used (1906) by William Graham Sumner

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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