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Beaker folk
[ bee-ker ]
noun
- a late Neolithic to Copper Age people living in Europe, so called in reference to the bell beakers commonly found buried with their dead in barrows.
Beaker folk
noun
- a prehistoric people thought to have originated in the Iberian peninsula and spread to central Europe and Britain during the second millennium bc
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Beaker folk1
First recorded in 1920–25
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Beaker folk1
C20: named after the beakers found among their remains
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Example Sentences
If I hadn't known better, I would have sworn he was born one of the Beaker folk.
From Project Gutenberg
We are forced to admit that we are in total ignorance of the language spoken by the Beaker-folk.
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