time-honoured

adjective

1. having been observed for a long time and sanctioned by custom

Example Sentences

Yet the time-honoured Show was found to be possessed of wonderful vitality.

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"Love in a cottage" is a time-honoured phrase, which changes its significance considerably, according to the lips that utter it.

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They are a conservative race, and are perfectly satisfied with their own time-honoured weapons.

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To fall back on the time-honoured maxim, immortalized by Shakespeare, comparisons of this kind are incompatible if not odious.

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That process, time-honoured in the hotel line, will not produce the beverage called coffee.

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