streetfolk

English

Etymology

street +‎ folk

Noun

streetfolk pl (plural only)

1. People who habitually spend time in the streets, such as public entertainers or the homeless.
   • 2014, Veronica Buckley, Madame de Maintenon: The Secret Wife of King Louis XIV:

     In between swigs, workers and streetfolk grabbed for the leftovers of these huge royal suppers at special markets set up on the mornings thereafter […]

   • 2015 November 24, Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, “Review: Franco Zeffirelli's 'La Bohème' Revisits a Take on Love and Loss”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     More than 400 of those performances have taken place among Mr. Zeffirelli’s naturalistic sets, depicting a Latin Quarter peopled with crowds of Parisian streetfolk, revelers, merchants and children.