folkloric
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Their authors were seldom scholars; more often they were nonprofessional writers and editors whose volunteer contributions ranged from family snapshots to gravestone photographs, fragmented town histories, folkloric anecdotes and tall tales.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
The work is a "very personal" painting, in which Kahlo "merges folkloric motifs from Mexican culture with European surrealism," Anna Di Stasi, the head of Latin American art at Sotheby's, told AFP.
From Barron's • Nov. 21, 2025
The 1990s started with a photograph that has achieved almost folkloric status as one of the best images of an Unidentified Flying Object.
From BBC • Aug. 2, 2025
And with the fluttering strums of a cuatro venezolano in “Joropo,” she called attention to the South American folkloric genre of the same name.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2025
“And one student is doing a folkloric dance, that type of thing. Acts Posada might enjoy if he was alive.”
From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez
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