old-fashioned

adjectif

1. 1

   Of an object, outdated or no longer in vogue.

   My bike is old-fashioned but it gets me around.

   She was seated in a low old-fashioned arm-chair, directly below a portrait of herself, that had been taken just before her first visit to London.

   Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path[…]. It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights.

   Walter Wren & Co. were a china clay firm right enough, but much smaller and older-fashioned than CCC.

2. 2

   Of a person, preferring the customs of earlier times and the old-style ways.

   You can’t stay the night, because my parents are a bit old-fashioned.

   The people of Marken may almost be regarded as the oldest-fashioned in the world. They adhere to the same picturesque costume as was worn by their ancestors three hundred years ago, and their houses are built in the same primitive style as in those days.

nom

1. 1

   A cocktail made by muddling sugar with bitters and adding whiskey or, less commonly, brandy, served with a twist of citrus rind.

   Old John was mixing Old Fashioneds and every now and then he would turn and stare at the record case with an expression of great loathing.

   Bond took a shower and changed and walked down the road and had two Bourbon old-fashioneds and the Chicken Dinner at $2.80 in the air-conditioned eating house on the corner that was as typical of ‘the American way of life’ as the motel.

   At the end of the workday, the Trumans liked to have a cocktail before dinner. Shortly after they moved into the White House, Mrs. Truman rang for the butler, Alonzo Fields, one afternoon and ordered two old-fashioneds.

2. 2

   A type of doughnut with a cakelike consistency and a rough surface, usually made with cultured buttermilk and chemical leaven and fried at a lower temperature.

Formes

pluriel

old-fashioneds

comparatif

more old-fashioned, older-fashioned

superlatif

most old-fashioned, oldest-fashioned