old-timey
adjective
: of a kind or style prevalent in or reminiscent of an earlier time
old-timey music
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tourists can pose for pictures wearing old-timey dresses or top hats
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Fast and fun, its cars and SUVs combined the old-timey brute power of big-displacement gasoline engines with the sophistication of modern chassis engineering and electronics.
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Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2024
Turn-ons included animal prints, furry collars, and the sort of mustaches favored by old-timey Russian czars.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2024
Rob Roy, Seattle Born in 2009, Rob Roy is practically old-timey at this point.
—Scott Hocker, theweek, 4 Dec. 2024
Commence Author, publicist, and webmaster Terese Schwartz wishes the world would do away with the word commence, an overly formal, old-timey way to say start.
—Renae Gregoire, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
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Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2024
Turn-ons included animal prints, furry collars, and the sort of mustaches favored by old-timey Russian czars.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2024
Rob Roy, Seattle Born in 2009, Rob Roy is practically old-timey at this point.
—Scott Hocker, theweek, 4 Dec. 2024
Commence Author, publicist, and webmaster Terese Schwartz wishes the world would do away with the word commence, an overly formal, old-timey way to say start.
—Renae Gregoire, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
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“Old-timey.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/old-timey. Accessed 11 Jan. 2025.
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