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English
Adjective
half-forgotten (not comparable)
- Not completely forgotten.
1941 September, Guy Bakewell, “Melbourne's Outer Circle Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 397:Save for a short distance at one end both its northern and southern extremities are desolate and unused for some miles, and grass covers the platforms of half-forgotten stations; but of its central portion, part is a busy electrified suburban branch and another part used for goods traffic.
2023 January 25, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 975, page 71:Now the model sits on a shelf in York's 'Warehouse' (known these days as the 'North Shed'), together with racks full of lamps, cutlery, and other ephemera from half-forgotten railway companies of long ago.
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