of old

idiom

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

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What’s more, this is not the Manchester City of old. Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025 Last week, said party had wandered to the county seat where the extract of old rye is kept and to be had. Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025 The painting was being prepared for conservation when researchers put it under a microscope and noticed different pigments through the craquelure, or pattern of fine cracks that form on the surface of old paintings. Reuters, CNN, 4 Feb. 2025 First, twenty-four feet of Colonial-era infill, composed of gravel, silt, concrete, steel, bricks, and chunks of old shipwrecks and docks. Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 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 22 Feb. 2025.

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