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Folklore

//ˈfoʊk.lɔːɹ// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    The tales, legends, superstitions, and traditions of a particular ethnic population. countable, uncountable

    "[T]here is no true American music but the wild sweet melodies of the Negro slave; the American fairy tales and folk-lore are Indian and African; and, all in all, we black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness."

  2. 2
    the unwritten lore (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture wordnet
  3. 3
    The tales, superstitions etc. of any particular group or community. broadly, countable, uncountable

    "A selection of longer items of hacker folklore and humor is included in Appendix A, Hacker Folklore."

  4. 4
    The collective of proofs or techniques which are widely known among mathematicians, but have never been formally published. countable, slang, uncountable

Etymology

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”).

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