| ADJ | old-fashioned | more old-fashioned | most old-fashioned |
ADJ positive | comparative | superlative
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- The film starred Astaire and Rita Hayworth and included the song "I'm Old Fashioned".
- In old-fashioned usage, "it is" can be freely abbreviated "’tis", even as a standalone sentence. This also allows the double contraction "’tisn’t", for "it is not".
- There are two main systems of ordering hiragana: the old-fashioned iroha ordering and the more prevalent gojūon ordering.
- "Borozó" usually denotes a cosy old-fashioned wine tavern, "pince" is a beer or wine cellar and a "söröző" is a pub offering draught beer and sometimes meals.
- Commonly for local detail surveys, tachymeters are employed, although the old-fashioned rectangular technique using an angle prism and steel tape is still an inexpensive alternative.
- It serves to contrast the "old-fashioned" Republican values assigned to Germanicus, and the imperial values possessed by Tiberius.
- Some others were once normal French but have become very old-fashioned, or have acquired different meanings and connotations in the original language, to the extent that they would not be understood (either at all, or in the intended sense) by a native French speaker.
- Reviews described the "Exile" trilogy as a "throwback" to old fashioned role-playing games, with deep, complex gameplay and simplistic graphics.
- In 1942–43, the Old-Fashioned Revival Hour had a record-setting national radio audience.
- The ingredients listed (spirits, sugar, water, and bitters) match the ingredients of an Old Fashioned, which originated as a term used by late 19th-century bar patrons to distinguish cocktails made the "old-fashioned" way from newer, more complex cocktails.
- It is linked to a concept known as 'subversive cross-stitch', which involves more risque designs, often fusing the traditional sampler style with sayings designed to shock or be incongruous with the old-fashioned image of cross-stitch.
- His "old fashioned" cars won the Brabham team the 1966 and 1967 championships, and were competitive in Formula One until rule changes forced a move to monocoques in 1970.
- Regattas are important social events in many family island settlements. They usually feature one or more days of sailing by old-fashioned work boats, as well as an onshore festival.
- However, by the 20th century it had become old-fashioned.
- Marcello Malpighi died of apoplexy (an old-fashioned term for a stroke or stroke-like symptoms) in Rome on 30 November 1694, at the age of 66.
- The joke was derived from the old-fashioned sound effect used by radio shows to convey the sound of hooves clattering.
- Other films based on Alcott novels and stories are "An Old-Fashioned Girl" (1949), "The Inheritance" (1997), and "An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving" (2008).
- Edmund Clerihew Bentley used the language as a plot point in his 1937 short story "The Old-Fashioned Apache".
- Several critics found him old-fashioned and misogynistic.
- A lesser known method, more popular in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, is the so-called 'Chaldean' method; in this context, "Chaldean" is an old-fashioned name for the Aramaic languages.
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