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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
time-worn
adjective
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time-worn phrases
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▪ Mozart had brought fresh impetus to a time-worn formula thanks to his recent exposure to exciting new developments in Paris.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
time-worn

1729, from time (n.) + worn (adj.).

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time-worn

a. no longer novel

Usage examples of "time-worn".

Subtracting the effects of travel, did not Master Lully appear somewhat decrepit and time-worn for a person who had drunk an elixir of life?

Gaudet hobbled into the bed-and-breakfast establishment, appearing bent by arthritis or scoliosis of the spine, his face designed to look time-worn and yet nondescript.

But, as we shall see in Part V, astronomical data of a disturbingly accurate and scientific nature turns up repeatedly in certain myths, as time-worn and as universal in their distribution as those of the great flood.

The basket was filled with such time-worn sweaters, tossed in with a general abandon.

Everybody is an agonist in one of Fate's time-worn games on the earth, and winning or losing is not what it seems to be in the judgement of others, but as judged by the player himself.

A penny, a very black and time-worn Indian head, clicked down the little chute where packaged gum should have issued.