folklorical

English

Adjective

folklorical

1. (uncommon) Synonym of folkloric
   • 1980, René Worms, Revue internationale de sociologie:

     Yet this folklorical (pejorative), exotic Africa folds back on herself through the processes of inversion described above. A folklorical Africa for colonisers and their economic interests […]

   • 2010, Sally Cragin, The Astrological Elements: How Fire, Earth, Air & Water Influence Your Life, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN, page 62:

     Folklorical significance: Gemini is cross-cultural. Twins are everywhere in prehistory, from Cain and Abel and Romulus and Remus, to Castor and Pollux and Freya and Freyr. This sign also represents the portal— […]

   • 2020, Holger Schulze, The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 397:

     Here, the reproduction is situated within a folklorical/meme domain and that gives composers, writers, and visual artists a chance to claim past aesthetics as something that is separated from its time of production. Which I believe it is.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:folklorical.