legendryn.
/ˈlɛdʒ(ə)ndri/, U.S. /ˈlɛdʒəndri/ Legends collectively or as a genre; the folklore or legends associated with a particular place, time, etc. Also occasionally: a legend.
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1754 ‘Young Lady’ Ingratitude 2 Vain Legendry! with which Mankind persuades The easy Faith of unexperienc'd Maids.
1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. iv. 100 In places where its legendry may be plainly read, as in painted windows.
1882 A. Beresford-Hope Brandreths II. xxix. 226 The broidure bright of homespun legendry On Homer's and on Virgil's awful robe.
1934 C. A. Smith Lost Worlds ii. 76 Ralibar Vooz... avowed his skepticism in no equivocal terms when he heard his henchmen regaling each other with these antique legendries.
1965 R. Bloch Druidic Doom 178 He had spent a good deal of time in looking up local customs and bits of wayside legendry.
2009 Narrative 17 326 To a folklorist, Arthurian legendry is, like fairy tales, a body of narrative folklore.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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