folk-way

See also: folkway and folk way

English

Noun

folk-way (plural folk-ways)

1. Alternative form of folkway
   • 1925, Dorothy Scarborough, assisted by Ola Lee Gulledge, “Children’s Game-songs”, in On the Trail of Negro Folk-songs, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 129:

     By the time you are grown up and can consider the folk-ways of your childhood with detached impersonality, you have forgotten what was of most value. Rarely will a child tell frankly of his lore, and rarely can an adult remember.

   • 1967, Neill H. Alford, Jr., “Economic Warfare as a Primary Policy Device”, in Modern Economic Warfare: (Law and the Naval Participant) (Navpers 15031; International Law Studies 1963; LVI), Newport, R.I.: Naval War College; Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, part II (The Naval Participant in Economic Warfare), pages 240–241:

     The restricted sustentive range of manipulations of foreign aid in economic warfare is especially marked. This is due to the state of the domestic law concerning foreign aid; "reciprocal controls" which a recipient state can exert; and a "folk way" expectation of economic aid flowing from centers of great productivity, such as the United States, the Soviet Union, and the countries of Western Europe. This folk-way expectation has emerged as a postulate of an obligation to supply the "needs of the needy" upon which foreign aid reasoning in both donor and recipient states tends to be founded.