Crossword clues for old-fashioned
old-fashioned
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
old fashioned \old fashioned\, old-fashioned \old-fashioned\n. A cocktail consisting of whiskey, bitters, and sugar, garnished with with fruit slices and often a cherry.
Old-fashioned \Old`-fash"ioned\, a.
Formed according to old or obsolete fashion or pattern;
belonging to or characteristic of times past; adhering to old
customs, styles, or ideas; as, an old-fashioned dress, girl;
old-fashioned wire-rimmed glasses. ``Old-fashioned men of
wit.''
--Addison.
This old-fashioned, quaint abode.
--Longfellow.
2. Unacceptable or suboptimum because of having been superseded by something more recent; outmoded[2]; out-of-date. [Narrower terms: old-fashioned, out of fashion(predicate), out of style(predicate), passe, passee.]
Syn: antique, old-hat(predicate), outmoded, out-of-date.
3. Unfashionably out of date; out of style. [Narrower terms: unfashionable (vs. fashionable)]
Syn: demode, out of fashion(predicate), out of style(predicate), passe, passee.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "in an outdated style," from old + past participle of fashion (v.). As a type of cocktail, attested from 1901, American English.\n\nOld Fashioned Tom Gin Cocktail Mix same as Holland Gin Old Fashioned Cocktail using Old Tom gin in place of Holland
[George J. Kappeler, "Modern American Drinks," Akron, Ohio, 1900]
Wiktionary
a. Of a thing, outdated or no longer in vogue. n. A whiskey-based cocktail.
WordNet
Wikipedia
"Old-fashioned" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. The story was written at the request of Kim Armstrong, editor of Bell Telephone Magazine, with the stipulation that it be 3,000 words and center on a problem in communications. The author claimed that he had thought up a plotline before lunch while the editor was over. The story was duly written and published in February 1976. It was illustrated by Gerald McConnell 1 in comic book style.
Old-fashioned may refer to:
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Old Fashioned, a cocktail
- Old Fashioned glass, a type of drinking glass named after the cocktail
- Old Fashioned (film), a 2015 film by Rik Swartzwelder
- "Old-fashioned" (short story) a 1976 short story by Isaac Asimov
- Old Fashioned (horse), a racing horse
- Old-fashioned three, a basketball term
- "Old Fashion," the name for maple syrup at IHOP
- Old-fashioned (slang), an informal term for an act of manual sexual stimulation
- Old-fashioned doughnut, a type of doughnut
Usage examples of "old-fashioned".
She ached to be outside in the fresh air, to be dressed in her oldest jeans, turning over spades full of soft loamy earth, feeling the excitement and pleasure of siting the bulbs, of allowing her imagination to paint for her the colourful picture they would make in the spring, in their uniform beds set among lawn pathways and bordered by a long deep border of old-fashioned perennial plants.
At this time of day, it is perhaps not improper to adduce the parallel instance of the old-fashioned corset, which was subject to a similar inconvenience.
It works by pneumatic power, and does away with the old-fashioned method of starting an aeroplane by twisting the propeller.
Old Amable himself, wearing his old-fashioned green frock coat, had wished to see the assembly, for he never failed to attend on such an occasion.
Lucas had a strong suspicion that Amaryllis was stuffed to her pretty eyeballs with a host of old-fashioned, boring, and very inconvenient virtues.
This layered imaging technique, far more precise than old-fashioned X-raying, allowed one to determine the age of the victim to the decade, judging by the hardening in the articular cartilage and in the blood vessels, since medicine, at the time these people lived, had not yet learned how to halt the changes termed sclerosis.
She glanced at Petya, nodded her massive head in its old-fashioned black bonnet and talked to Auntie a little while about the weather and politics.
The huge old-fashioned, four-posted bed, overhung by a baldachin of carved wood with satin linings, occupied a deep alcove.
The Old Sweet is, in fact, a delightful old-fashioned resort, respectable and dull, with a pretty park, and a crystal pond that stimulates the bather like a glass of champagne, and perhaps has the property of restoring youth.
Twenty yards beyond the gates was the villa itself, a rambling old-fashioned Edwardian building much behung with balconies.
Joe tromped loudly into the house and transferred the twelve birdlets from bis pockets into an old-fashioned, hexagonal glass-paneled ballot jar which he had bought for five bucks at a Monte Vista, Colorado, auction.
And the critics who think it very new and splendid to bring bohunks into poetry are equally old-fashioned in their ideas.
The doctor went upstairs, and buckled on a long-necked pair of old-fashioned spurs, and Mrs.
And the old-fashioned ceramet material of her hull, built before collapsed metals had been possible, had been opened up like cardboard under the edge of red-hot knives.
I rubbed it with pumice stone, sand, and ochre, and finally I succeeded in imparting to my production such a queer, old-fashioned shape that I could not help laughing in looking at my work.