old-timey
adjective
: of a kind or style prevalent in or reminiscent of an earlier time
old-timey music
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tourists can pose for pictures wearing old-timey dresses or top hats
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This old-timey name was further popularized by Doris Day.
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Lydia Wang, Parents, 8 Apr. 2025
Artisans across Brooklyn were making their own bean-to-bar chocolate, canning pickles, opening old-timey butcher shops, and forging knives.
—Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 7 Apr. 2025
Even the fun of seeing giant old-timey robots, who appear to have been designed by a metalworker in Portland, Oregon, with a curly mustache, on a rampage wears off quickly.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2025
Anyone who has ever gone to the doctor has had to wear a beige skullcap full of metal pins while the doc squirts liquid from an old-timey ear-syringe bulb into their mouth.
—Kinsey Jasnoch, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025
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Lydia Wang, Parents, 8 Apr. 2025
Artisans across Brooklyn were making their own bean-to-bar chocolate, canning pickles, opening old-timey butcher shops, and forging knives.
—Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 7 Apr. 2025
Even the fun of seeing giant old-timey robots, who appear to have been designed by a metalworker in Portland, Oregon, with a curly mustache, on a rampage wears off quickly.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2025
Anyone who has ever gone to the doctor has had to wear a beige skullcap full of metal pins while the doc squirts liquid from an old-timey ear-syringe bulb into their mouth.
—Kinsey Jasnoch, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for old-timey
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“Old-timey.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/old-timey. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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