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
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
The 1960s remain in the folk memory as a golden age of pop culture, with 1966 enshrined in the UK as the year of swinging London and the winning of the World Cup.
From The Guardian • Nov. 15, 2015
There is still a collective folk memory of how coal, iron and steel literally forged the nation.
From BBC • May 6, 2013
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