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Examples
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The ladye shee was new-fangle, but yett shee was affrayd.
Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series Frank Sidgwick
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Dese yer new-fangle 'schools don' l'arn 'em nothin 'ter compare wid it.
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I cannot make head or tail of these far-fetched new-fangle notions you, somehow or other, have fallen in love with -- your James
The Light of Scarthey Egerton Castle 1889
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A work exhibiting the spelling, and explaining the meaning, of these new-fangle 'hard words' was the felt want of the day; and the first attempt to supply it marks, on the whole, the most important point in the evolution of the modern English
The evolution of English lexicography James Augustus Henry Murray 1876
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De folks like de new-fangle 'cakes betteh, an' gwine back to de ole way wouldn't do no good.
The Earth Trembled Edward Payson Roe 1863
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And so Sir Mordred drew with a great host to Dover, for there he heard say that Sir Arthur would arrive, and so he thought to beat his own father from his lands; and the most part of all England held with Sir Mordred, the people were so new-fangle.
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Social media and all the new-fangle tools and applications that come with it are not a fad.
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