old-fashioned
Etymology Pronunciation Adjective
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Etymology Pronunciation Adjective
old-fashioned
- Of a thing: outdated or no longer in vogue.
- Synonyms: dated, oldfangled, outdated, Thesaurus:obsolete, Thesaurus:unfashionable
- My bike is old-fashioned but it gets me around.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC ↗, page 320 ↗:
- She was seated in a low old-fashioned arm-chair, directly below a portrait of herself, that had been taken just before her first visit to London.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC ↗, page 18 ↗:
- Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned, […] and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights.
- Of a person: preferring the customs of earlier times and the old-style ways.
- You can’t stay the night, because my parents are a bit old-fashioned.
- French: démodé, vieilli, à l'ancienne, ringard (informal)
- German: altmodisch, altväterlich, altväterisch, antiquiert, unmodern, unzeitgemäß, verzopft, zopfig (pejorative)
- Italian: antiquato, sorpassato, fuori moda
- Portuguese: démodé, demodê, antiquado
- Russian: старомо́дный
- Spanish: pasado de moda, anticuado, chapado a la antigua, démodé, vetusto, rancio, trasnochado
- French: vieux jeu, de la vieille école
- German: altmodisch
- Italian: vecchio stile
- Portuguese: antigo, antiquado (derogatory), à moda antiga
- Russian: старомо́дный
- Spanish: a la antigua, a la antigua usanza, pasadista, carca, de antigua estampa
old-fashioned (plural old-fashioneds)
- A cocktail made by muddling sugar with bitters and adding whiskey or, less commonly, brandy, served with a twist of citrus rind. [from late 19th c.]
- 1996, Paul F. Boller, Presidential Anecdotes, page 286:
- At the end of the workday, the Trumans liked to have a cocktail before dinner. Shortly after they moved into the White House, Mrs. Truman rang for the butler, Alonzo Fields, one afternoon and ordered two old-fashioneds.
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