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ye olde en · ADJ
Pronunciation
yē ōld commonly, spelling pronunciation
/jiː əʊld(i)/ (UK)
/ji oʊld/ (US)
/ði oʊld/ (US)
thē ōld properly
/ðiː əʊld/ (UK)
Etymology
Pseudo-loan from Middle English, derived from the + old. First attested in 1850.
Meanings
(not-comparable) Old-fashioned, antiquated, historic, especially in a contrived manner.
We lived in Crofton, Maryland, halfway between Annapolis and Washington, DC, at the western edge of Anne Arundel County, where the residential developments are all in the vinyl-sided Federalist style and have quaint ye-olde names like Crofton Towne, Crofton Mews, The Preserve, The Ridings. 2019 September 17, Edward Snowden, Permanent Record, New York, N.Y.: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 35:
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ye olde en · X
Pronunciation
yē ōld commonly, spelling pronunciation
/jiː əʊld(i)/ (UK)
/ji oʊld/ (US)
/ði oʊld/ (US)
thē ōld properly
/ðiː əʊld/ (UK)
Etymology
Pseudo-loan from Middle English, derived from the + old. First attested in 1850.
Meanings
Pseudo-archaic form of the old, as to suggest antiquity or old tradition.
All this time waiting at door. At last young fellow in a white jacket condescended to answer my bell—and asked me to wait some more in the porch. But I didn't see it and walked into ye olde tyme lounge hall, panelled in Elizabethan linen-fold oak made out of chewed paper painted olde shitte colour. 1955, Joyce Cary, Not Honour More, New Directions Publishing, →ISBN, page 98:
Judging from the panicked look and white pallor on Pinky's face, I'd just put him between ye olde rock and ye olde harde place. Not my problem. 2012, Richard Marcinko, Seal Force Alpha, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
The saga of the fugitive nags gripped the nation. All day, #horses was a trending topic on social media, as if this was ye olde days. 2024 April 27, Michael Hogan, “Did five frightened horses bolting through London really mean the end was neigh?”, in The Observer, →ISSN, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2024:
Ye Olde Coffee Shoppe
I'm not wasting my time going to lectures given by ye olde professor Jones.