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old-fashioned

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old-fash·ioned (ldfshnd)
adj.
1. Of a style or method formerly in vogue; outdated.
2. Attached to or favoring methods, ideas, or customs of an earlier time: old-fashioned parents.
n.
A cocktail made of whiskey, bitters, sugar, and fruit.

old-fashioned
Adjective
1. in the style of a previous period; outdated: she wore her hair in a strangely old-fashioned tight hairdo
2. favouring or denoting the styles or ideas of a former time: old-fashioned values
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.old-fashioned - out of fashion; "a suit of rather antique appearance"; "demode (or outmoded) attire"; "outmoded ideas"
unfashionable, unstylish - not in accord with or not following current fashion; "unfashionable clothes"; "melodrama of a now unfashionable kind"

old-fashioned
adjective 1. out of date, ancient, dated, outdated, unfashionable, antiquated, outmoded, passé, old hat, behind the times, fusty, out of style, démodé (French) out of the ark (informal) not with it (informal) (old-)fogeyish << OPPOSITE up-to-date
adjective 2. oldfangled, square (informal) outdated, old, past, dead, past it (informal) obsolete, old-time, archaic, unfashionable, superannuated, obsolescent, out of the ark (informal)
Translations
old-fashioned [ˈəuldˈfæʃənd] adjanticuado, pasado de moda
old-fashioned [ˈəuldˈfæʃnd] old adjdémodé(e); [person] → vieux jeu inv
old-fashioned [ˈəuldˈfæʃnd] old adjaltmodisch
old-fashioned [ˈəuldˈfæʃnd] adjantiquato/a, fuori moda; [person] → all'antica


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As the first part of "An Old-Fashioned Girl" was written in 1869, the demand for a sequel, in beseeching little letters that made refusal impossible, rendered it necessary to carry my heroine boldly forward some six or seven years into the future.
I never supposed she'd want them--they're so old-fashioned, and nobody seems to want anything but hooked mats now.
One old Sag-Harbor whaleman's chief reason for questioning the Hebrew story was this: --He had one of those quaint old-fashioned Bibles, embellished with curious, unscientific plates; one of which represented Jonah's whale with two spouts in his head --a peculiarity only true with respect to a species of the Leviathan (the Right Whale, and the varieties of that order), concerning which the fishermen have this saying, A penny roll would choke him; his swallow is so very small.
 
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