old people

noun

Aboriginal people of earlier generations, or living in a traditional manner, as regarded by their descendants as repositories of traditional knowledge.

First used 20th c.
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nounold people pl (plural only)
  1. Australiapluralplural onlyAboriginal people of earlier generations, or living in a traditional manner, as regarded by their descendants as repositories of traditional knowledge.First known use 20th c.

    She breathed in the scent of the gum leaves and the wattle blossom washing across the narrow channel that separated them from the Old People.

    2018, Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip, University of Queensland Press, published 2023, page 289
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    ‘You don't see them figs nowhere else up here. And it didn't get here by accident neither. Them old people planted her beside the springs in a sheltered place against the rocks hundreds of years back.’

    2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 273
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