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fakelore
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English
Etymology
Noun
fakelore (uncountable)
- Manufactured folklore presented as if it were genuinely traditional.
- 2009 May 31, Jerry Griswold, “A Family of Epic Proportions”, in New York Times:
- 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.
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