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folklore

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"Traditional tales"

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈfəʊk.lɔː/Part of speech nounSorted efklloorStarts with FEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Traditional stories, sayings, and customs of a culture.

Word origin

From folk + lore, coined by British writer William Thoms in 1846 to replace terms such as "popular antiquities". Thoms imitated German terms such as Volklehre (“people's customs”) and Volksüberlieferung (“popular tradition”). Compare also Old English folclar (“popular instruction; homily”) and West Frisian folkloare (“folklore”).

Used in a sentence

  • Why has not England a great mythology? Our folklore has never advanced beyond daintiness, and the greater melodies about our country-side have all issued through the pipes of Greece.
  • Crossing the ridge she stood at last upon the brink of Kor-ul-GRYF—the horror place of the folklore of her race.
  • A selection of longer items of hacker folklore and humor is included in Appendix A, Hacker Folklore.

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