motortrauer
/ˈmoʊtɔːrˌtraʊər/nounVerified NewThe mourning of a car-industry region for its own vanishing purpose.
Grief with a gearshift: the town that was the car now watches the car become something it cannot be. The mourning is real, and the industry it mourns is already gone.
Etym. — *motor* + *Trauer* (German: mourning), a Germanic compound for a German condition.
Rel. — industrialfuneral
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