Meanings
adjectivevieux jeu (comparative more vieux jeu, superlative most vieux jeu)
comparative more vieux jeu · superlative most vieux jeu
- Old-fashioned, outmoded.
If she was to leave Douglas, for what way of living was she to leave? There's something so damned vieux jeu, she thought gloomily, in leaving like Nora, to live differently!
1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 358
Origin
- Frenchvieux jeu
- Englishvieux jeu
From French vieux jeu.
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