OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 10290

antique

/ˌanˈtiːk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
antiguo
Belonging to former times, not modern, out of date, old-fashioned.
A lonesome traveler might have been seen, / On the turnpike road near the village green, / In a grotesque suit of ultra-marine / And a hat broad-brimmed and conical, / Awkwardly pe…
Some traditions of this antiquer system may have passed into Van Eyck's method, from distemper into oil, and thence downwards, gradually more vague, into the modern process, till t…