workfolk

noun

workfolk

noun

Etymology From work + folk.

1

Usually Collectively, people who perform manual labour.

Tess waited outside the door of the farmhouse till the group of workfolk had received their wages, and then Marian introduced her.1892, Thomas Hardy, chapter XLII, in Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Volume 2, page 118:

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