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Definition of Lore
Lore
The space between the eye and bill, in birds, and the corresponding region in reptiles and fishes.

The anterior portion of the cheeks of insects.

Lost.

That which is or may be learned or known; the knowledge gained from tradition, books, or experience; often, the whole body of knowledge possessed by a people or class of people, or pertaining to a particular subject; as, the lore of the Egyptians; priestly lore; legal lore; folklore.

That which is taught; hence, instruction; wisdom; advice; counsel.

Workmanship.


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Lore Quotations
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
H. P. Lovecraft

Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting.
John Hume

Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.
Colin Firth

Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
Charles de Secondat

There are things that I invented - the creaky geriatric robot that is always grumpy, for example, or the little wheelie guy, he's not in the Hasbro lore. But kids love that stuff - this little guy as a pet on a chain. They gravitate towards it.
Michael Bay

In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.
William Robertson Smith

All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.
Wilfred Owen


The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.
Hart Crane

The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.
Mario Batali

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.
Cleveland Abbe

In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore.
Virginia Johnson

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Lore Translations
lore in German is Kunde






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