Old-fashioned means belonging to an earlier time, no longer in fashion. Old-fashioned manners, an old-fashioned look, terribly old-fashioned.
It can be affectionate or dismissive and the tone decides which — old-fashioned courtesy is praise, old-fashioned views usually is not. The cocktail called an old-fashioned got its name when drinkers began asking for a whisky made the old-fashioned way.
1adjectiveold-fashionedBelonging to an earlier time and out of fashion.
“My grandfather still writes letters with an old-fashioned fountain pen.”
old-fashioned is a quality of style.
Also accepted in games: outdated, old fashioned
Old plus fashioned. The cocktail was named in the late 1800s by drinkers asking for their whisky made the old-fashioned way.
From old + fashioned. The cocktail (which goes back to at least the early 1800s) got its name in the late 1800s as more complicated cocktails became common and those who preferred simpler drinks began asking for old-fashioned cocktails.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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