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The legend is that these people are descendents of deserters from Cornwallis 'army at the time of the surrender.
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- noun An unverified story handed down from earlier times, especially one popularly believed to be historical.
- noun A body or collection of such stories.
- noun A romanticized or popularized myth of modern times.
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- It seems to me that the legend is the interesting thing, and not the character, and that the latter loses all its value when the legend which surrounds it is destroyed. — Musical Memories
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The legend is that these people are descendents of deserters from Cornwallis 'army at the time of the surrender.
— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 4 -
Nevertheless, it would have been useful to have indicated in some way when a (migratory) place-name legend is recounted rather than a historical fact; otherwise, "West we go" as an answer to the question
— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 2 - And now, with the long night's high-speed steaming over, the dawn in the sky and the BISMARCK looming up over the horizon, the legend was about to end forever. — The Lonely Sea
- Matt.xiii. 54, and Mark vi. 1, where Nazareth figures as the âcountry "of Jesus, prove that such a legend was absent from the primitive text which has furnished the rough draft of the present Gospels of Matthew and Mark. — The Life of Jesus
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- Middle English, from Old French legende, from Medieval Latin (lēctiō) legenda, (lesson) to be read, from Latin, feminine gerundive of legere, to read; see leg- in Indo-European roots.
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/ (lĕjˈənd)/
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