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[ noun ] a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people
Used in print (Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)It has come to mean myths , legends , tales , songs , proverbs , riddles , superstitions , rhymes and such literary forms of expression . (Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)It resembles , too , pictures such_as Du^rer and Bruegel did , in which all that looks at_first to be solely pictorial proves on inspection to be also literary , the representation of a proverb , for_example , or a deadly_sin . Related terms |
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