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comparative more old-fashioned, superlative most old-fashioned
Of a thing, outdated or no longer in vogue. quotations examples
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.
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], page 320
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.
1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients
Of a person, preferring the customs of earlier times. examples
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. quotations examples
Old John was mixing Old Fashioneds and every now and then he would turn and stare at the record case with an expression of great loathing.
1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 43
Bond took a shower and changed and walked down the road and had two Bourbon old-fashioneds and the Chicken Dinner at $2.80 in the air-conditioned eating house on the corner that was as typical of ‘the American way of life’ as the motel.
1956, Ian Fleming, chapter 15, in Diamonds Are Forever
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.
1996, Paul F. Boller, Presidential Anecdotes, page 286