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old-fashioned

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1. old-fashioned - Noun

2. old-fashioned - Adjective

3. old-fashioned - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Formed according to old or obsolete fashion or pattern; adhering to old customs or ideas; as, an old-fashioned dress, girl.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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old fashioned

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I'm very old-fashioned. I believe that people should stay married for life, like pigeons and Catholics. Woody Allen

I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman's life. Beatrix Potter

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land. Jon Stewart

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned. Oscar Wilde

In our day, computer technology and the proliferation of books on CD-ROM have not affected - as far as statistics show - the production and sale of books in their old-fashioned codex form. Alberto Manguel

I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds. Gerard Manley Hopkins

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