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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Inside the door, you are greeted with an old-timey store selling vintage candy like hard lemon drops and Sugar Babies.
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Rebecca Deurlein, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
Please submit your answers via old-timey telegraphs — and an expansion of his thematic preoccupations, The Phoenician Scheme finds our man Wes in a somewhat pensive mood.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2025
And the tiny town of Grand Lake oozes old-timey nostalgia.
—Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 22 May 2025
Anyone looking for old-timey, medieval streets and structures, keep looking.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
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Rebecca Deurlein, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
Please submit your answers via old-timey telegraphs — and an expansion of his thematic preoccupations, The Phoenician Scheme finds our man Wes in a somewhat pensive mood.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2025
And the tiny town of Grand Lake oozes old-timey nostalgia.
—Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 22 May 2025
Anyone looking for old-timey, medieval streets and structures, keep looking.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 19 May 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 8 Jun. 2025.
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