fangled

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The rest of the road up to Stratford is a bit new-fangled, a bit light industrial, and a bit wide-open.

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  1. New-made; new-fangled. Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment Nobler than that it covers. Shak., Cymbeline, v. 4.

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  • She let her hand slip passively out of mine, and passed on, without a word CHAPTER IX LOVELL "POPS THE QUESTION One morning, ere we had breakfasted at the Ark, Lovell Barlow, like some new-fangled orb of day, was seen to surmount the ruddy verge of the horizon. —  Cape Cod Folks
  • I must tell him, in reply, that what he calls new-fangled are but the doctrines of '98; and that it is he (Mr. Rives), and others with him, who, professing these doctrines, have degraded them by explaining away their meaning and efficacy. —  American Eloquence, Volume 1 Studies In American Political History (1896)
  • No new-fangled, radical notions, such as her drunken brother picked up, could find any encouragement from her. —  Brought Home
  • And what is even worse, you expose me to an action at law, with heavy damages The lawyer had sundry little qualms of conscience, which were deepened by his wife's sagacious words; and suddenly it struck him that the new-fangled vehicle which had brought him home so quietly from Scargate had shown a strange inability to stand still for more than two minutes at his side door. —  Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale
  • For them to adopt these new- fangled inventions, would be like our adopting a new religion. —  General History for Colleges and High Schools
 

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