soundlore UK /ˈsaʊnd.lɔː/US /ˈsaʊnd.lɔɹ/ noun2 •Information or knowledge about sounds.When a young brave in training could distinguish between these sounds he was well on the road to know what made them, but there was still an enormous amount of sound-lore to be learned. — 2013 •(old-fashioned) The study of sounds; phonology.I must reiterate excuse if I have seemed heedless or impertinent in my refusal seriously to consider works on prosody which are based upon "sound-lore." — 1910
