pseudo-archaic

alternative pseudarchaic · alternative pseudoarchaic

1. not comparableSeemingly, but not actually, archaic.

   If you look the word up in the dictionary, you will find it is a “pseudo-archaic spelling of fair”. So the fayre is a pseudo event.

   2012 July 10, Oliver Pritchett, “Oliver Pritchett: It's fair, not fayre!”, in Tony Gallagher, editor, The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2025

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   To dramatize Norse myths, he created a pseudo-archaic form of German, whose cadences dictated the stately melodic lines, which in turn flowed together into endless scenes.

   2009 March 26, Justin Davidson, “The Fellowship of ‘The Ring’”, in New York, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2025

   In the pun-riddled libretto by Ernst von Wolzogen (a satirist and cabaret figure), all this is expressed in a mixture of Bavarian dialect (poorly rendered by this American cast) and that easily lampooned hodgepodge of alliteration and pseudo-archaic German of Wagner’s own librettos.

   2013 December 18, Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, “A Rare View of Strauss in a Very Devilish Mood”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2025