Definition of folk memory in US English:
folk memory
nounfōk ˈmem(ə)rēfoʊk ˈmɛm(ə)ri
A body of recollections or legends connected with the past that persists among a group of people.
Example sentencesExamples
- The folk memory of the loathing it aroused survives to this day.
- At worst this idea evokes for them a folk memory of the 1920s stock market boom in America.
- When popular folk memory was matched with the images, some historians ecstatically claimed they had cracked the riddle of the revered river.
- The Ice House in Ballisodare lives in the folk memory of many people around the historic town.
- Veterans from the then recently deceased age of steam, these men had folk memories stretching back to the 1930s and beyond.
- There are many, many other examples of short books which have embedded themselves in the folk memory of readers.
- It is clear that the goings-on in the village of Tooreen almost 50 years ago still weave a magical spell in the folk memory of the region.
- In 1793, the Convention confirmed the fait accompli, and the time of the lords rapidly became a mere folk memory.
- I doubt Ms Rowling read Ginzburg before inventing Harry Potter, so we must be looking at a folk memory re-emerging periodically along highly structured symbolic axes.
- Scots seemed chiefly preoccupied with the folk memory of the Clearances.
- The ‘Tartar’ commands a special place in the hearts of older folk in the Erris region as well as in the folk memory of its people.
- Here folk memories of James have been developed and exploited in the advancement of libertine values.
- Compiling Domesday Book was a huge endeavour, which entered the folk memory because almost everyone was involved.
- The folk memory of the 1930s depression was still vivid and idleness on this scale was considered an outrage.
- This is a folk memory of the days when the father collected the meat with his spear and the mother the vegetables with her digging stick.
- Today, 150 years later, the famine is still close to the surface in the folk memory here.
- But the Celtic tiger baffles them: contemporary Ireland refuses to mesh with their dreams and folk memories.
- A few locations have retained folk memories of great events.
- Today, there are not so many Irish nuns and priests but they are part of the folk memory.
- But Hutton is a folk memory, and that's not how people here feel, certainly not how I feel.