folk memory
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Palestinian folk memory also influenced the naming of their first two scents.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2024
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
David Renton, a barrister and author specialising in rightwing extremism, speaks of the left’s anti-fascist folk memory, of the Anti-Nazi League and Rock Against Racism in the 1970s.
From The Guardian • Jan. 23, 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
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