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OLD-FASHIONED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Out of fashion
Example:
outmoded ideas
Synonyms:
antique; demode; ex; old-fashioned; old-hat; outmoded; passe; passee
Classified under:
Similar:
unfashionable; unstylish (not in accord with or not following current fashion)
Derivation:
old-fashionedness (the property of being no longer fashionable)
Context examples:
In repassing through the small vaulted room, however, your eyes will be attracted towards a large, old-fashioned cabinet of ebony and gold, which, though narrowly examining the furniture before, you had passed unnoticed.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Odds and ends, some pipes, a few novels, two of them in Spanish, an old-fashioned pinfire revolver, and a guitar were among the personal property.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She expressly conditioned, however, for paying no visits, and would do no more than accompany them to Gray's in Sackville Street, where Elinor was carrying on a negotiation for the exchange of a few old-fashioned jewels of her mother.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
To the Great House accordingly they went, to sit the full half hour in the old-fashioned square parlour, with a small carpet and shining floor, to which the present daughters of the house were gradually giving the proper air of confusion by a grand piano-forte and a harp, flower-stands and little tables placed in every direction.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
The company was completed by a peasant in a rude dress of undyed sheepskin, with the old-fashioned galligaskins about his legs, and a gayly dressed young man with striped cloak jagged at the edges and parti-colored hosen, who looked about him with high disdain upon his face, and held a blue smelling-flask to his nose with one hand, while he brandished a busy spoon with the other.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We stood together in the same old-fashioned window at night, when the moon was shining; Agnes with her quiet eyes raised up to it; I following her glance.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"I do it out of respect for you, my dear," said old-fashioned John.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
At one side of this was a squat, brass-bound wooden box, the lid of which was hinged upwards, with this curious old-fashioned key projecting from the lock.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“I am afraid that it will take wiser heads than yours or mine,” he remarked, and bowing in a stately, old-fashioned manner he departed.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We passed along the low-roofed, devious corridors of the old-fashioned inn to the back of the house.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
