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folklorical

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folklorical

  1. (uncommon) Synonym of folkloric
    • 1980, René Worms, Revue internationale de sociologie:
      Yet this folklorical (pejorative), exotic Africa folds back on herself through the processes of inversion described above. A folklorical Africa for colonisers and their economic interests []
    • 2010, Sally Cragin, The Astrological Elements: How Fire, Earth, Air & Water Influence Your Life, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN, page 62:
      Folklorical significance: Gemini is cross-cultural. Twins are everywhere in prehistory, from Cain and Abel and Romulus and Remus, to Castor and Pollux and Freya and Freyr. This sign also represents the portal— []
    • 2020, Holger Schulze, The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 397:
      Here, the reproduction is situated within a folklorical/meme domain and that gives composers, writers, and visual artists a chance to claim past aesthetics as something that is separated from its time of production. Which I believe it is.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:folklorical.