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
They pulled off that hilarious heist in Paris, using nothing more than the folk memory of a famous night in Barcelona 20 years earlier to guide them to an unlikely victory over PSG.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 18, 2020
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
But the tournament soon entered folk memory as “the summer fairy tale” — the rebirth of a liberal German patriotism in a country where national pride had long been taboo.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2018
This Scotland was urban with a collective folk memory of displacement from a rural past.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2014
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