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ye-olde

ye-olde is the alternative form of ye olde.

Meaning of ye olde

Adjective

ye olde (not comparable)

  1. 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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Questions about ye-olde

What is ye-olde the alternative form of?
Ye-olde is the alternative form of ye olde.

Words near ye-olde in the dictionary

  1. Ye'kwana
  2. ye'll
  3. ye're
  4. ye've
  5. ye-es
  6. ye-olde
  7. yea
  8. yea-said
  9. yea-say
  10. yea-sayer
  11. yea-sayers

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