fieldlore

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From field +‎ lore.

Noun[edit]

fieldlore (uncountable)

  1. Knowledge or skill gained in the fields; knowledge of rural pursuits.
    • 2002, Mark Storey, John Clare: The Critical Heritage - Page 317:
      And he often wrote long formless pieces full of place-names and of fieldlore charmingly expressed, songs uttering his love and his pathetic joy in retrospection, poems mingling the two elements.