folkmoot
noun
(formerly, in England) a general assembly of the people of a shire, town, etc.
folkmote,
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a variation of
folkmoot.
Example Sentences
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Has not Spenser his law-terms: his capias, defeasance, and duresse; his emparlance; his enure, essoyn, and escheat; his folkmote, forestall and gage; his livery and seasin, wage and waif?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 by Various
It must, however, be remarked that in royal cities the folkmote never attained the independence which it assumed elsewhere.
From Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, Prince
After the Conquest, they elected Stephen at a folkmote, a gathering of all the citizens.
From The History of London by Sir Walter Besant
Then Streamed to a folkmote all the Achaean men At Menelaus' summons.
From The Fall of Troy by Arthur Sanders Way
The Kabyles know no authority whatever besides that of the djemmaa, or folkmote of the village community.
From Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, Prince
