lores

plural of lore
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as in mythologies
the body of customs, beliefs, stories, and sayings associated with a people, thing, or place set out to study the rich lore of the Cajun people of Louisiana before it all vanished

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Noun
  • Sometimes my collection of knowledges feels like rash splatters of matter floating with me.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • But the filmmaker proves more interested in interrogating that ethos than recreating it, and few horror mythologies are better suited to exploring betrayal and regret than one built around the refusal to let the dead remain dead.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 8 July 2026
  • The threads that formed country music The American West generated its own mythologies.
    Ted Olson, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
Noun
  • With seven floors of exhibitions and wo movie theaters, the Academy Museum is the largest museum in the world devoted to the arts, sciences, and artists of moviemaking.
    Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • Demisurgery advanced the mortuary sciences by turning them into an art.
    John Semley, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026
Noun
  • The kallikantzaroi are a group of blind, black goblins who live underground during most of the year sawing at the world tree – a motif throughout various folklores that connects the heavens to the Earth.
    Jennifer Borresen, USA Today, 20 Dec. 2022
Noun
  • Regardless of one’s experience with the Tarot, this book offers profound, embodied wisdoms for creative and critical writers, artists, and activists.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 June 2026
  • The book also includes little wisdoms from his three children with wife Camila Alves McConaughey; son Levi, 17 (who plays his onscreen son in The Lost Bus), daughter Vida, 15, and younger son Livingston, 12.
    Andrea Mandell, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The writers of the Beat generation adopted ideas and images from cultural traditions ranging from Buddhism to jazz.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 21 July 2026
  • The finished piece becomes a small keepsake tied to one of Costa Rica’s most recognizable craft traditions.
    Emese Maczko, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
Noun
  • Howe and his players were automatically enshrined as club legends.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 30 July 2026
  • Ironically, in what several key movie-making legends have decried and lamented as a self-destructive move, Hollywood has been training the audience not to head out to theaters, but instead to wait patiently at home.
    Adam Aron, Variety, 29 July 2026
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“Lores.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lores. Accessed 3 Aug. 2026.

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