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What does old-timey mean?

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Adjective
  1. (US, informal) Reminiscent or representative of an older time.
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Why even his language had the stilted shaping of the characters in most of these old-timey classical novels.
Over the course of 15 tracks, they gently shift from dark, carnival oompah to breathy, folky ballads to sweeping, expansive pop and old-timey backwoods country.
His old-timey ink-and-watercolor illustrations feel almost Hogarthian in places, but the sepia quality is well suited to this engrossing historical tale.
That white man buys up all this old-timey stuff he can get his hands on, all through this country. The very tools I lived by, he sells em for antiques.
The old-timey pie safe I've chosen to describe here was originally used to keep freshly baked pastries and desserts out of harm's way while cooling.
Instead, the Manitoban quintet specializes in a bluesy brand of old-timey folk music, and injects that traditional mother load with a youthful spirit.

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