Definition of "womenfolk" []

• Women considered as a group. (noun-plural)
• The women of a community or family. (noun-plural)

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• "Once you pop ‘em out * somebody’s* got to feed them and change them and teach them not to play in traffic, so eventually you still end up with the domesticity versus adventure dichotomy, even if you can at least spring your womenfolk from the thankless task of representing it."
• "Or, "White men are very protective of their womenfolk, which is godly and noble, but you shouldn't provoke their sinful wrath by talking to white women in front of them.""
• "a good-natured people, with a little touch of Teuton grossness perhaps, which makes them swill overmuch beer, and with an arrogance towards their womenfolk which is not tolerable to"