Fieldlore

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Knowledge or skill gained in the fields; knowledge of rural pursuits. uncountable

    "And he often wrote long formless pieces full of place-names and of fieldlore charmingly expressed, songs uttering his love and his pathetic joy in retrospection, poems mingling the two elements."

Example

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"And he often wrote long formless pieces full of place-names and of fieldlore charmingly expressed, songs uttering his love and his pathetic joy in retrospection, poems mingling the two elements."

Etymology

From field + lore.

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