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单词 urban folklore
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urban folklore
urban folklore n. originally and chiefly U.S. the folklore of contemporary industrialized societies; (now usually) urban legends collectively.
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1938 Mod. Lang. Jrnl. 23 199 Street cries are distinctive from folk-songs in that they rather originate in urban centers than in rural districts; William Ellery Leonard has well called them ‘urban folklore.’
1960 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 45 199 As examples of urban folklore, another field deserving deeper study, tales like ‘The Ghostly Hitchhiker’ and ‘The Death Car’ are traced in some detail.
1986 Campaign (Nexis) 6 June Urban folk-lore (which for once seems to be rooted in solid fact) has it that London is carved up between two gangs.
2000 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) (Electronic ed.) 28 Oct. ‘It's urban folklore completely,’ he says of the ghost stories. ‘You can't prove any of this.’
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