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folk memory

noun

  1. the memory of past events as preserved in a community
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Palestinian folk memory also influenced the naming of their first two scents.

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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.

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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.

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“Then he turned to me and said, ‘It’s in the folk memory.’”

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Beyond that, there's the folk memory of the intense violence which accompanied Northern Ireland's birth.

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