fanlore

English

Etymology

fan +‎ lore

Noun

fanlore (uncountable)

  1. The history or knowledge of a fandom.
    • 1957 May, Ed Cox, “Torus Installment”, in Contour, number 11, page 7:
      But by this time, we'd remembered the location of Clifton's Cafeteria which is well-known in old Los Angeles fanlore.
    • 1981 August, Gary Deindorfer, “Group Sainthood”, in Boonfark, number 5, page 34:
      We have moved out of fannish lore and into questions of ontology. I have long been fascinated by anything having to do with the nature of existence, nonexistence, the interplay between the two — even more than being fascinated by discussions of fanlore.
    • 2021, Peter Cullen Bryan, Creation, Translation, and Adaptation in Donald Duck: Comics The Dream of Three Lifetimes‎, page 99:
      The identification of Carl Barks is a crucial part of the fanlore, and the subject of some mild disagreement.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fanlore.
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