folk memory
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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In Soviet times, Victory Day commemorations were more low-key, with the emphasis on honouring veterans and their huge sacrifices, which are seared into older Russians' folk memory.
From Reuters ● May 7, 2023
He added folk legends of being able to walk between lands now separated by sea could be a folk memory stemming from rising sea levels after the last ice age.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2022
The idea that a folk memory could preserve history 4,000 years old may seem preposterous, but there were also folk tales that gods built the passage tombs to affect the solar cycle.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2020
In Britain and the US, most of us have not eaten this kind of bread in so many generations there is no longer even a folk memory of what it tasted like.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 10, 2019
Gov. Phil Bryant last week went further, likening it to the 1927 flood that lives on in books, songs, movies and the folk memory of the Magnolia State.
From Washington Times ● May 29, 2019
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