olde-worlde
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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We stopped for a wee at that olde-worlde hotel in Cirencester's market square and – wow – there were the then high-flying Cardiff City strutters finishing their slap-up, meat‑and-two-veg, sit-down lunch.
From The Guardian • Jan. 5, 2011
Britain may have lost some of its olde-worlde charms to the dual forces of modernizing government and globalization, but there's one corner of the nation left largely untouched by progress.
From Time Magazine Archive
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