folkish
Americanadjective
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of or resembling the common people.
folkish crafts.
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resembling or based on folklore, folk music, or folk dances.
a violin concerto that is strongly folkish.
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Lead folkish single “A Child’s Question, August,” is filled with pastoral imagery, sparse instrumentation and the singer’s soprano.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 2, 2023
Bass legend Pino Palladino contributes to two tracks, including "Daydreaming," which also samples the Brothers Johnson's "Ain't We Funkin' Now," while Ben Harper adds the plaintive and disorienting guitar to the folkish, harmony-heavy "Boyfriends."
From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2022
But I immersed myself in writing English folkish material.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2019
As in “Breaking the Waves,” Mazzoli wrings ferocious intensity from familiar-seeming materials: folkish ballads and wheezing harmonicas are blended into a gorgeously eerie orchestral fabric, one that includes dangling guitars brushed with whisks.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2018
But the scrap of verse, especially in its original dialect, has such a folkish ring that it is probable he was only adapting a local legend to his own circumstances.
From More English Fairy Tales by Batten, John Dickson
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