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folklore
What does folklore mean?
folklore (noun): the unwritten lore (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you pronounce folklore?
/ˈfoʊˌklɔɹ/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does folklore come from?
From folk + lore, coined by British writer William Thoms in 1846 to replace terms such as "popular antiquities".
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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