vieux jeu

British  

/ vjø ʒø /

adjective

1. old-fashioned

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Etymology

Origin of vieux jeu

literally: old game

Example Sentences

In English, at least, this all seems a tad vieux jeu.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2012

And his intellectual guides, first Shaw, and then, when Shaw became vieux jeu, De Gourmont, favored that conclusion.

From Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism by Canby, Henry Seidel

The clerical effort was by no means vieux jeu.

From Mrs. Fitz by Snaith, J. C.

Some one had said that she looked like the vieux jeu, idea of the queen in Hamlet.

From Pandora by James, Henry

My thoughts, I feel, are what to-day Men call vieux jeu.

From De Libris: Prose and Verse by Dobson, Austin