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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
old-established
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Born in 1882, Roosevelt came from an old-established and well-to-do landowning family of upstate New York.
▪ But that is no longer possible in the historical or old-established large nation- states.
▪ In the foreground can be seen the old-established straw-plait basket shop.
▪ In the upland region an old-established pastoral economy and the local industry that supported it was in sharp decline.
▪ Others had grown up around old-established trading posts, such as those on the Gold Coast or in Sierra Leone.

Usage examples of "old-established".

Neither oil nor kerosine had as yet disturbed the reign of the three old-established fat-lamps, which, suspended from the rafters by a twist of fencing wire, shed a soft, if somewhat dim, light on the table.

From there he could take a connecting train to Dundee, where were situated the old-established offices of Dalgleish and Dalgleish, attorneys-at-law.

Ropo comes from an old-established family and probably knows much more about Easter Island and its unsolved puzzles than all the other islanders put together.