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folkmoot

noun

Etymology

From Old English folcġemōt (“meeting of the people of a town or district”), equivalent to folk + moot.

  1. inherited from folcġemōt

Definitions

  1. A general meeting (assembly) of the people of a town, district, or shire.

    • To which folke-mote they all with one consent […] Agreed to travell, and their fortunes try.
    • Yet even in the seven kingdoms, even in the united kingdom, when there was a general summons to the host, some concentration of the armed folkmoots must have taken place.
    • If the accused did not appear on the day named for the trial, he was outlawed at the folkmoot.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA