Examples of use of Olde Worlde
1. Then there were those long, seemingly featureless days when, with all the shops shut, and the television off air, and every olde–worlde toy exhaustively played with, a child learned the true meaning of boredom.
2. The thriller writer Donald E Westlake, who conducted mystery weekends in various plush hotels, called their Olde Worlde decor post–ironic – first you do an old style as a joke; then everyone rather likes it, so you do it on purpose; then it becomes "traditional". The length of the cycle, of course, varies.
3. They‘re hugely interesting women – one was a university lecturer, another a very senior nurse – there‘s never a lack of things to talk about." To throw off some of their more olde–worlde associations, the WI has agreed to modernise some of its more arcane practices.
4. Cod olde worlde language (it‘s never "go on" but "go forth!") and cod aphorisms ("all roads lead to sacrifice!"). Quite early someone says "may the hair on your toes never fall out" and from that moment I‘m afraid I was a perpetual prey of the giggles.
5. Article continues "I have to make five or six calculations before finally taking my shot," the Australian Stuart Appleby said last night after his final practice round – which might be read as a complaint but was meant as compliment for a golf course that in the last few days has gone from an olde–worlde curiosity in the eyes of the game‘s elite to a place of wonderment.