folkloric

[fohk-lawr-ik, -lohr-]

adjective

1. based on or resembling folklore.

   folkloric music.

Other Word Forms

• folklorically adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of folkloric¹

First recorded in 1880–85; folklore + -ic

Example Sentences

The work is a "very personal" painting, in which Kahlo "merges folkloric motifs from Mexican culture with European surrealism," Anna Di Stasi, the head of Latin American art at Sotheby's, told AFP.

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This painting is a "very personal" image, in which Kahlo "merges folkloric motifs from Mexican culture with European surrealism," Anna Di Stasi, head of Latin American art at Sotheby's, told AFP.

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And he dances like a Greek native in a folkloric wedding scene, the sort of local-color diversion that added shine and reality to many a movie back in the 1970s.

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The folkloric Euro-American story of the “headless horseman” comes to mind — a nightmarish, animated corpse who haunts the living.

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The 1990s started with a photograph that has achieved almost folkloric status as one of the best images of an Unidentified Flying Object.

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Related Words

• allegorical 
• fabled 
• fanciful 
• fictitious 
• imaginary 
• legendary 
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• storied 
• unreal 
• whimsical