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n. - The property of adhering to customs of an earlier era.

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Usage examples (23)
  • Adjective : an old-fashioned bathing suit. ,old-fashioned ideas. ,a delightfully old-fashioned gentleman
  • Anyway: on the surface, the old-fashionedness is in the freedom.
  • Its fatal old-fashionedness hangs like a millstone about its neck.
  • Her having you on all fours in her surgery seems a trifle unconventional if you'll excuse my old-fashionedness!
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