Definition of Folklores

1. folklore [n] - See also: folklore

Lexicographical Neighbors of Folklores

folkie
folkier
folkies
folkiest
folkiness
folkish
folkishly
folkishness
folkishnesses
folkland
folklands
folklife
folklike
folklives
folklore
folklores (current term)
folkloric
folklorically
folklorish
folklorist
folkloristic
folkloristically
folkloristics
folklorists
folkmoot
folkmoots
folkmot
folkmote
folkmotes
folkmots

Literary usage of Folklores

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1922)
"Canney, Maurice Arthur X reference book containing up-to-date information of the ancient and modern religions, philosophies, folklores and allied subjects. ..."

2. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1897)
"I am quite aware that the Folk-Lore Society has specialised in the direction of the folklore of the British Islands and their correlative folklores. ..."

3. The Word by Harold Waldwin Percival (1912)
"folklores may be confused in many of their tales, but their method is always right. To be sure, in all running waters they catch the eel on its migration to ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"An exception, indeed, was made in favour of the folklores of ancient Greece and Rome, as being intrinsically beautiful and exceptionally instructive. ..."

5. Calcutta Review by University of Calcutta (1844)
""Almost all the demons and ghostly beings in Japanese folklores are of foreign origin".17 But the Japanese used these foreign materials in their own way. ..."

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