old-time
adjective
1
: of, relating to, or characteristic of an earlier period
old-time songs
2
: of long standing
old-time residents
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an old-time song that took the long-married couple back to when they were first dating
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Janet Kusterer, Baltimore Sun, 8 Jan. 2025
The rafters are 19th century mine timbers, the atmosphere is old-time ski club (authentic, not contrived), and the walls are covered in local ski lore.
—Cassidy Randall, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
By those naming conventions, old-time Dell users could roughly equate XPS laptops with new Dell Premium products.
—Ars Technica, 6 Jan. 2025
At the time, those came in classic green bottles from old-time perfumers’ shelves.
—Jennifer Weil, WWD, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Old-time.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/old-time. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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