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archaism

Word or phrase that sounds old-fashioned in a modern vocabulary and is generally used only for a particular effect.

For example, ‘Ye Olde Tea Shoppe’ is a spelling archaism, used to suggest a traditional English atmosphere.
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Another Scandinavian obsoletism which was displaced by a French synonym was agrote 'to cloy, cram, surfeit'.
Scandinavian loanwords in English in the 15th century (1) by Bator, Magdalena / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
 
 
 
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