throwback

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But now it's regarded as a throwback, an obsolescent art form.

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  1. noun A reversion to a former type or ancestral characteristic.
  2. noun See atavism.

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  • This place was a throwback, a place, mercifully, left out of time's loop. —  Blevins, Meredith - (Szabo 02) - The Vanished Priestess
  • The prime suspect is an ideological throwback, a “prophet” living in a junkyard outside the city proper to whom the idea of the surrogates is an abomination. —  FSF,October2005
  • Adam Gretz: Something I've liked -- throwback uniforms. —  FanHouse
  • Lincecum is a throwback, all right, and not just because he uses an old-fashioned, hands-over-the-head windup. —  Latest News
  • Hadley St. deftly avoids pigeonholing as either a nepotistic afterthought or a throwback-soul time capsule on the order of, say, —  Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
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