old-fashioned look

noun

A glance of disdain or disapproval.

“The sepia photographs had an old-fashioned look.”

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Meanings

nounold-fashioned look (plural old-fashioned looks)

plural old-fashioned looks

  1. idiomaticA glance of disdain or disapproval.

    He produced his Agreement and, as he put it in – that is to say, tendered it as evidence – he gave me an old-fashioned look; and that, of course, told me that the rotten thing wasn't stamped.

    2001, Dornford Yates, B-Berry and I Look Back, page 141
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see old-fashioned, look.

    The sepia photographs had an old-fashioned look.

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Chicago

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