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Meanings of local lore in English

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Usage of local lore in English
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According to local lore, seven is a magic number that brings good luck.
Arabesque: a taste of morocco, turkey, and lebanon
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The Teuton is easily the world's master in the art of conserving local lore.
Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine
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Intersections could become invisible tour stops augmented with local lore.
Wired
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According to local lore, Red Junior was paraded about on his father's shoulders, a hero.
The day the falls stood still
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He was a middle-aged man, portly and affable, with a considerable fund of local lore.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
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According to local lore, the goddess protected Uttarakhand from calamities, so her shrine could not be touched.
The Guardian
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But she was an encyclopedia of local lore and a great storyteller in the congenial Southern tradition.
Anthill: a novel
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Being a garden writer, I was on the receiving end of quite a bit of local lore.
Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway
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Ingred, who had been priming herself with local lore, confided details of the occult ceremonial to Quenrede.
A Popular Schoolgirl
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It was before my time, of course, but local lore has it that things went downhill from there.
The blackstone chronicles
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Now formalized by road signs and pavement, local lore said it was the intersection of two hunting trails.
Dead until dark
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The Old Fire Station, according to local lore, receives frequent visits from the chain-clanking souls of deceased firefighters.
The Irish Times
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The grizzly bear killings are part of local lore, at least for those of us who know the history.
White fire
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Mehndiyan was first built to home a mysterious 19th century religious sect, according to local lore in the Indian capital.
Reuters
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The other not less noted in his way, deep in local lore, large-brained, full-blooded, of somewhat perturbing and tumultuous presence.
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
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According to local lore, it disappeared in 1945 in a secret tunnel system as the Soviet Army advanced west toward Germany.
The Irish Times
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