fenman
noun
a dweller in the Fens of England.
fenmen
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pluralof fenman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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They are fine, sturdy, prosperous village communities, that mind their own business, and take their pleasure in religion and in song, like their forefathers the fenmen, Girvii, who sang their three-part catches with rude harmony.
From At Large by Arthur Christopher Benson
"I have not; but I have heard some fenmen talking."
From King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
"Our fenmen can wear a mail-shirt as easily as a frock, and handle a twybill as neatly as a breviary."
From Hereward, the Last of the English by Charles Kingsley
Paths there are that the fenmen know, winding through mere and peat bog and swamp, but no host can win through them; and perhaps those marches are safer borders than even the sea.
From King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
Fierce as they were, these fenmen read in the Wesleys a will to match their own and beat it; a scorn, too, which cowed, but at the same time turned them sullen.
From Hetty Wesley by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
