time-honored
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]time-honored (comparative more time-honored, superlative most time-honored)
- (American spelling) Honored because of great age, or long usage.
- 1869 May, Anthony Trollope, “The Honourable Mr. Glascock”, in He Knew He Was Right, volume I, London: Strahan and Company, […], →OCLC, page 107:
- It would have been a great privilege to be the mistress of an old time-honoured mansion, to call oaks and elms her own, to know that acres of gardens were submitted to her caprices, to look at herds of cows and oxen, and be aware that they lowed on her own pastures.
Translations
[edit]honored because of age or long usage
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