Time-honoured

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of time-honored. UK, alt-of, alternative

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    honored because of age or long usage wordnet
  2. 2
    acceptable for a long time, or having a long history wordnet

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"An ancient city totters to her fall, / time-honoured empress and of old renown; / and senseless corpses, through the city strown, / choke house and temple."

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