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Topic: FOLKLORE

Language: Old English
Origin: lar 'teaching, lesson'

lore

 noun
     
lore [uncountable]
RF knowledge or information about a subject, for example nature or magic, that is not written down but is passed from person to person:
According to local lore, a ghost still haunts the castle.
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