Meanings
alternative field-lore · alternative field lore
- uncountableKnowledge or skill gained in the fields; knowledge of rural pursuits.
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.
2002, Mark Storey, John Clare: The Critical Heritage - Page 317
Origin
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fieldlore. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fieldlore
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