kinfolk

kinfolk
/kin"fohk'/, n.pl. Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S.
relatives or kindred.
Also, kinfolks, kinsfolk.
[1425-75; late ME kinnes-folk; see KIN, FOLK]

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