Fakelore
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Fakelore is a noun meaning Manufactured folklore presented as if it were genuinely traditional.
Meaning
Manufactured folklore presented as if it were genuinely traditional.
Example Sentences
Behind all this was the mythy Paul Bunyan, that giant lumberjack from the North Woods who bestrode entire counties in a single step while accompanied by the equally gigantic Babe the Blue Ox. To be sure, as with other heroes of American fakelore — bear-wrestling Davy Crockett, coyote-raised Pecos Bill, river-boating Mike Fink — there lingered about Paul Bunyan an aroma of frontier development and chamber-of-commerce boosterism.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include folk-lore, folklorism, fakeloo, folklife, fabledom, fabulate.
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