A recollection or body of recollections of the past that persists among a particular group of people.
民间记忆（流传在民间的对往事的记忆或传说）
Example sentencesExamples
It is clear that the goings-on in the village of Tooreen almost 50 years ago still weave a magical spell in the folk memory of the region.
At worst this idea evokes for them a folk memory of the 1920s stock market boom in America.
The Ice House in Ballisodare lives in the folk memory of many people around the historic town.
The folk memory of the 1930s depression was still vivid and idleness on this scale was considered an outrage.
I doubt Ms Rowling read Ginzburg before inventing Harry Potter, so we must be looking at a folk memory re-emerging periodically along highly structured symbolic axes.
In 1793, the Convention confirmed the fait accompli, and the time of the lords rapidly became a mere folk memory.
Compiling Domesday Book was a huge endeavour, which entered the folk memory because almost everyone was involved.
There are many, many other examples of short books which have embedded themselves in the folk memory of readers.
Veterans from the then recently deceased age of steam, these men had folk memories stretching back to the 1930s and beyond.
When popular folk memory was matched with the images, some historians ecstatically claimed they had cracked the riddle of the revered river.
This is a folk memory of the days when the father collected the meat with his spear and the mother the vegetables with her digging stick.
A few locations have retained folk memories of great events.
Here folk memories of James have been developed and exploited in the advancement of libertine values.
Today, there are not so many Irish nuns and priests but they are part of the folk memory.
The ‘Tartar’ commands a special place in the hearts of older folk in the Erris region as well as in the folk memory of its people.
Scots seemed chiefly preoccupied with the folk memory of the Clearances.
But the Celtic tiger baffles them: contemporary Ireland refuses to mesh with their dreams and folk memories.
The folk memory of the loathing it aroused survives to this day.
Today, 150 years later, the famine is still close to the surface in the folk memory here.
But Hutton is a folk memory, and that's not how people here feel, certainly not how I feel.
Definition of folk memory in US English:
folk memory
nounfōk ˈmem(ə)rēfoʊk ˈmɛm(ə)ri
A body of recollections or legends connected with the past that persists among a group of people.
民间记忆（流传在民间的对往事的记忆或传说）
Example sentencesExamples
The folk memory of the loathing it aroused survives to this day.
At worst this idea evokes for them a folk memory of the 1920s stock market boom in America.
When popular folk memory was matched with the images, some historians ecstatically claimed they had cracked the riddle of the revered river.
The Ice House in Ballisodare lives in the folk memory of many people around the historic town.
Veterans from the then recently deceased age of steam, these men had folk memories stretching back to the 1930s and beyond.
There are many, many other examples of short books which have embedded themselves in the folk memory of readers.
It is clear that the goings-on in the village of Tooreen almost 50 years ago still weave a magical spell in the folk memory of the region.
In 1793, the Convention confirmed the fait accompli, and the time of the lords rapidly became a mere folk memory.
I doubt Ms Rowling read Ginzburg before inventing Harry Potter, so we must be looking at a folk memory re-emerging periodically along highly structured symbolic axes.
Scots seemed chiefly preoccupied with the folk memory of the Clearances.
The ‘Tartar’ commands a special place in the hearts of older folk in the Erris region as well as in the folk memory of its people.
Here folk memories of James have been developed and exploited in the advancement of libertine values.
Compiling Domesday Book was a huge endeavour, which entered the folk memory because almost everyone was involved.
The folk memory of the 1930s depression was still vivid and idleness on this scale was considered an outrage.
This is a folk memory of the days when the father collected the meat with his spear and the mother the vegetables with her digging stick.
Today, 150 years later, the famine is still close to the surface in the folk memory here.
But the Celtic tiger baffles them: contemporary Ireland refuses to mesh with their dreams and folk memories.
A few locations have retained folk memories of great events.
Today, there are not so many Irish nuns and priests but they are part of the folk memory.
But Hutton is a folk memory, and that's not how people here feel, certainly not how I feel.