Old-timely

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Synonym of old-timey.

    "Nearly every town in this greatest and grandest of the Territories is in the same deplorable fix, counting its girls over every night as carefully as old-timely ladies do their chickens or spoons, and never able, by any arithmetic, to scare up more than one to every fifty fellows."

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"Nearly every town in this greatest and grandest of the Territories is in the same deplorable fix, counting its girls over every night as carefully as old-timely ladies do their chickens or spoons, and never able, by any arithmetic, to scare up more than one to every fifty fellows."

Etymology

From old-time + -ly.

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