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OLD FASHIONED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does old fashioned mean? 

OLD FASHIONED (noun)
  The noun OLD FASHIONED has 1 sense:

1. a cocktail made of whiskey and bitters and sugar with fruit slicesplay

  Familiarity information: OLD FASHIONED used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


OLD FASHIONED (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A cocktail made of whiskey and bitters and sugar with fruit slices

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("old fashioned" is a kind of...):

cocktail (a short mixed drink)

Meronyms (substance of "old fashioned"):

whiskey; whisky (a liquor made from fermented mash of grain)


 Context examples 


Two thousand a year without debt or drawback—except the little love-child, indeed; aye, I had forgot her; but she may be 'prenticed out at a small cost, and then what does it signify? Delaford is a nice place, I can tell you; exactly what I call a nice old fashioned place, full of comforts and conveniences; quite shut in with great garden walls that are covered with the best fruit-trees in the country; and such a mulberry tree in one corner! Lord! how Charlotte and I did stuff the only time we were there! Then, there is a dove-cote, some delightful stew-ponds, and a very pretty canal; and every thing, in short, that one could wish for; and, moreover, it is close to the church, and only a quarter of a mile from the turnpike-road, so 'tis never dull, for if you only go and sit up in an old yew arbour behind the house, you may see all the carriages that pass along.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)



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