old-fashioned

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   No longer modern; out of date.

   He still uses an old-fashioned typewriter to write his letters.

2. 2
   adj

   Preferring the ways and customs of the past.

   My grandparents are old-fashioned about how young people should behave.

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.

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