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time-honoured

[tahym-on-erd]

time-hon·ored

[tahym-on-erd]
adjective
revered or respected because of antiquity and long continuance: a time-honored custom.
Also, especially British, time-hon·oured.


Origin:
1585–95
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Time-honoured is always a great word to know.
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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.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
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time-honoured
 
adj
having been observed for a long time and sanctioned by custom

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