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What does hark back mean?

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Verb
  1. (hunting) Of hounds, to retrace a course in order to pick up a lost scent.
  2. (figuratively, US) To return or revert (to a subject etc.), to allude to, to evoke, to long or pine for (a past event or era).
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Vespasian's images hark back to harsh styles of veristic portraiture of the late Republic.
I want to see horror hark back to the old days of video nasties.
In many ways it seems to hark back to a bygone age, with its wine, cigars and unashamed donnishness.
Barns from yesteryear, roadside crosses, chapels, and half-buried root cellars hark back to the area's farming past.
Her soft lustrous vocals hark back to days of the melancholic lounge singer, emoting to an absorbed audience through an opaque smoky veil.
But nowadays, though the old men and women remember, the younger generations no longer hark back to that bitter past.

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