Meanings (ES + gloss)
arcaico • arcaizante
Of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated.
A person familiar with the dialect of certain portions of Massachusetts will not fail to recognize, in ordinary discourse, many words now noted in English vocabularies as archaic,…
There is in the best archaic coin work [of the Greeks] ... a strength and a delicacy which are often wanting in the fully developed art of a later age.
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