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ˈold-ˌfangled, a.
[f. after new-fangled: cf. fangle.]
Characterized by adherence to what is old, old-fashioned. Hence old-ˈfangledness.
1842Browning Pied Piper vi, Low it dangled Over his vesture so old-fangled. 1871M. Collins Mrq. & Merch. I. vi. 208 Old-fangled cut glasses. 1894Harper's Weekly Mag. 7 Apr. 315 Repelling the new-fangled remedy, [he] resorts to the oldest-fangled known. 1895Spectator 23 Nov. 731/2 We like better, out of a certain old-fangledness, to turn back again to the oft-told stories of Punch's beginnings. |