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old fash·ioned
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Princeton's WordNet
old fashionedadjective
a cocktail made of whiskey and bitters and sugar with fruit slices
antique, demode, ex, old-fashioned, old-hat(p), outmoded, passe, passeeadjective
out of fashion
"a suit of rather antique appearance"; "demode (or outmoded) attire"; "outmoded ideas"
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old fashioned
Old fashioned refers to something that is not modern, out-of-date, or characterized by the style, manner, or methods of a past time. It can denote a person, behavior, style, or item that belongs to, or is reminiscent of, an earlier time or era.
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Old Fashioned
The Old Fashioned is an IBA Official Cocktail made by muddling dissolved sugar with bitters then adding alcohol, such as whiskey or brandy, and a twist of citrus rind. It is traditionally served in a short, round, 8–12 US fl oz tumbler-like glass, which is called an Old Fashioned glass, named after the drink. The Old Fashioned is one of six basic drinks listed in David A. Embury's The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks.
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Rank popularity for the word 'old fashioned' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4578
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of old fashioned in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of old fashioned in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of old fashioned in a Sentence
It looks as if it was put in by an Indian. (looking at an old-fashioned fuse box while on a factory tour near Edinburgh)
I don't have a down-on-my-luck story, i got fat the old-fashioned way -- a lot of eating, a lot of drinking and no exercise.
The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.
I was fortunate that with the teams I played with, outwith of the natural team spirit, there was always that feeling of an old-fashioned community, i grew up in the Gorbals in Glasgow, a community area where everyone was helping everyone, I think a club should be like that, it should be a family, it should be part of the community.
When I say wiretapping, those words were in quotes. That really covers -- because wiretapping is pretty old-fashioned stuff -- but that really covers surveillance and many other things. And nobody ever talks about the fact that it was in quotes, but that's a very important thing.
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- AnticuadoSpanish
- kunoIndonesian
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