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xeroxlore

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Synonym of photocopylore (“a kind of folklore comprising humorous material and urban legends that are reproduced on xerox machines (photocopiers)”).

uncountable

Examples

“[…]the word's protean expressiveness has been observed in a xeroxlore item printed in Robert Anton Wilson's Playboy's Book of Forbidden Words[…]”
“I did some of my research on xeroxlore, or photocopylore, in a textile dyeing plant of about 250 people.”
Both Xeroxlore and faxlore have an increasing emphasis of visual material: / [It may be] a characteristic of both the increasingly visual sophistication of youth in our society and the capacities of the fax machine which sends images rather than alphanumeric messages; […]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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