of old

idiom

formal + literary
: in the past : in a time that was long ago
in (the) days of old

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One of the more common threads running through his work is his love of old-school Westerns, as seen prominently with his take on the spaghetti Western in 2012's Django Unchained and his nostalgic tribute to a fading Western star in 2019's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Keith Staskiewicz, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Dec. 2025 This year, there's a good mix of old and new, sweet and savory. Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 25 Dec. 2025 No one knows why; no one has a telephone in the rural Blue Ridge Mountains, so John Boy sets out into a winter storm to find his daddy, having various escapades with the quirky residents of their backwoods community—a Black preacher, a pair of old-lady bootleggers, a turkey thief—along the way. Literary Hub, 22 Dec. 2025 Our list includes a mix of old friends — ones who are no stranger to our end-of-year roundups — and newer voices who could be entertaining us for years to come. Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 22 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for of old

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“Of old.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/of%20old. Accessed 30 Dec. 2025.

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