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archaism

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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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The style in which it was written was that curious jewelled style, vivid and obscure at once, full of argot and of archaisms, of technical expressions and of elaborate paraphrases, that characterizes the work of some of the finest artists of the French school of Symbolistes.
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