Usage of "time-honoured"

Honored because of age or long usage.

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Ús de time-honoured en anglès

In time-honoured fashion, talk of promise has been undermined by stark reality. 
 The Guardian 

It's a time-honoured journey, and one that often holds untold wrestling glories. 
 The Guardian 

The time-honoured examples were easily shown to be capable of different explanations. 
 Darwin and Modern Science 

The abbey breaks its own time-honoured traditions, and hands over the boy. 
 The White Princess 

My original contention was based on the time-honoured saying, 'murder will out.' 
 The Hollow of Her Hand 

Football club best and fairests often follow a certain time-honoured formula. 
 News.com.au 

Works on paper are a time-honoured and affordable category of collectables. 
 The South African 

It came in time-honoured forms-thoseof horses and of a woman. 
 The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance 

I'd been away, in the time-honoured criminal sense of the word. 
 Woken furies 

Indeed it is an old and time-honoured trick of the fox. 
 Lady into Fox 

This hostility flowed from an ancient and time-honoured belief in Scotland. 
 History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom 

It is a time-honoured tradition for artists to swap work with one another. 
 News.com.au 

The time-honoured Alexandra Blossom Festival is in danger of withering on the vine. 
 Radio NZ 

It is an ancient and time-honoured trick of your adorable sex. 
 Quill's Window 

Very soon, however, the children are ready for the time-honoured fairy-tale or folk-tale. 
 The Child Under Eight 

It is a time-honoured tradition among the old to worry about the young. 
 The Guardian 

Significats de time-honoured en anglès