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English
Adjective
time-honoured (comparative more time-honoured, superlative most time-honoured)
- (British spelling) Alternative spelling of time-honored
1869 May, Anthony Trollope, “The Honourable Mr. Glascock”, in He Knew He Was Right, volume I, London: Strahan and Company, , →OCLC, page 107:It would have been a great privilege to be the mistress of an old time-honoured mansion, to call oaks and elms her own, to know that acres of gardens were submitted to her caprices, to look at herds of cows and oxen, and be aware that they lowed on her own pastures.
1959 September, P. Ransome-Wallis, “The British Railways Class "9" 2-10-0s”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 422–423:The formation of sulphuric acid is inhibited in the presence of metallic oxides and the method of application in this instance would really be no more difficult than the time-honoured trick of sprinkling sand on the fire to clean the tubes.
2022 February 23, Barry Doe, “Liverpool & Manchester Atlas is excellent value”, in RAIL, number 951, page 61:I was also interested to hear that he is taking over the time-honoured Rail Atlas of Great Britain & Ireland, following Stuart Baker's death in November 2020.
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