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adjective.
based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity
Word Usage
"At the left were more attractions: another menagerie, a heap of ostensible gold representing the five milliards paid by France, a gallery of astonished wax soldiers representing the Franco-Prussian war, a cook-shop with "mythologic" confectionery."