ye-olde
ye-olde is the alternative form of ye olde.
Meaning of ye olde
Adjective
ye olde (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
Questions about ye-olde
- What is ye-olde the alternative form of?
- Ye-olde is the alternative form of ye olde.
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