old-line
Use Old-line in a sentence
adjective
1.
following or supporting conservative or traditional ideas, beliefs, customs, etc.
2.
long established; traditional: old-line society.
Origin:
1855–60
1855–60
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| old-line | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | (US), (Canadian) conservative; old-fashioned |
| 2. | well-established; traditional |
| old-'liner | |
| —n | |
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Old-line
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
But she also urged two other old-line trustees not to resign.
Old-line economists have not yet understood that reality.
In the rest of the country the party promised to be an alternative to the partisan bickering between the two old-line parties.
The experience of an old-line manufacturing company provides an example of dealing with this question.
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