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- noun in combination The state or condition of having a specified
fashion orstyle .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Anyway: on the surface, the old-fashionedness is in the freedom.
Archive 2006-01-01 2006
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Anyway: on the surface, the old-fashionedness is in the freedom.
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of 4 Sisters, 2 Rabbits and a Very Interesting Boy 2006
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Her having you on all fours in her surgery seems a trifle unconventional if you'll excuse my old-fashionedness!
Went to My Doctor Gordie 2009
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Because the stifling old fashionedness of traditional school will become unbearable to those who have tasted freedom
Archive 2006-10-01 Bill Kerr 2006
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Because the stifling old fashionedness of traditional school will become unbearable to those who have tasted freedom
freedom schools Bill Kerr 2006
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What may have smelled sharp, bitter, spicy, acrid and dry at first – with a dash of aldehydes for a good measure of old-fashionedness – turned into a quite interesting yet very wearable fragrance.
Archive 2006-05-01 Ayala Sender 2006
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There's some cognitive dissonance between the modernity of the format and the old-fashionedness of the content - it is of British soldiers in riot gear on the streets of Belfast.
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Poor Starkey, when young, had that peculiar stamp of old-fashionedness in his face which makes it impossible for a beholder to predicate any particular age in the object.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various
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While playing a game of 'boston' he whispered into Jacqueline's ear something about the old-fashionedness and stupidity of Paul and
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Its fatal old-fashionedness hangs like a millstone about its neck.
The Bibliotaph and Other People Leon H. Vincent
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