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She’d never buy ready-made cookie dough.", "type": "example" }, { "ref": "1749, [Alain-René Lesage], “Gil Blas Sets Out for the Asturias; Passes through Valladolid, where He Visits His Old Master Doctor Sangrado, and Meets, by Accident, with Signior Manuel Ordonnez, Director of the Hospital.”, in [Tobias George Smollett], transl., The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, volume IV, London: […] J. Osborn, […], →OCLC, book X, page 6:", "text": "[A]s I am grand nephevv to a phyſician of the old ſchool, give me leave to revolt vvith you againſt chymical medicines. […] I vvould vvillingly perform the office of executioner to theſe ignorant innovators, of vvhom you complain vvith ſuch eloquence and juſtice.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1906 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “The Doctor’s Dilemma”, in The Doctor’s Dilemma, Getting Married, & The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet, London: Constable and Company, published 1911, →OCLC, Act I, page 23:", "text": "Aha! Haha! 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Where are the entertainers of 1895?", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1951 April, Stirling Everard, “A Matter of Pedigree”, in The Railway Magazine, number 600, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 274:", "text": "The amount of external pipework is also unusual in a British locomotive, though apparent in the most recent L.M.S.R. designs, such as the Class \"4\" 2-6-0s; but while lacking the tidiness of the old school of British locomotive engineering, this has obvious application for maintenance purposes in present circumstances.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Preceded by the: a group of people characterized by being conservative or traditional; also, a method for accomplishing a task, a style, or a way of thinking that was employed in a former era, remembered either for its inferiority to the current method, or for its superiority over the new way." ], "id": "en-old_school-en-noun-TLWfaGNs", "links": [ [ "the", "the#Article" ], [ "group", "group#Noun" ], [ "people", "person#Noun" ], [ "characterize", "characterize" ], [ "conservative", "conservative#Adjective" ], [ "traditional", "traditional#Adjective" ], [ "method", "method#Noun" ], [ "accomplish", "accomplish" ], [ "task", "task#Noun" ], [ "style", "style#Noun" ], [ "way", "way#Noun" ], [ "thinking", "think#Verb" ], [ "employed", "employ#Verb" ], [ "former", "former#Adjective" ], [ "era", "era" ], [ "remember", "remember" ], [ "inferiority", "inferiority" ], [ "current", "current#Adjective" ], [ "superiority", "superiority" ], [ "new", "new#Adjective" ] ], "tags": [ "idiomatic", "uncountable" ], "translations": [ { "_dis1": "83 17", "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "group of people characterized by being conservative or traditional; method for accomplishing a task, a style, or a way of thinking that was employed in a former era", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "oude stempel" }, { "_dis1": "83 17", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "group of people characterized by being conservative or traditional; method for accomplishing a task, a style, or a way of thinking that was employed in a former era", "word": "vanha koulukunta" }, { "_dis1": "83 17", "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "group of people characterized by being conservative or traditional; method for accomplishing a task, a style, or a way of thinking that was employed in a former era", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "ancienne école" }, { "_dis1": "83 17", "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "group of people characterized by being conservative or traditional; method for accomplishing a task, a style, or a way of thinking that was employed in a former era", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "vieille école" }, { "_dis1": "83 17", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "group of people characterized by being conservative or traditional; method for accomplishing a task, a style, or a way of thinking that was employed in a former era", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "alte Schule" }, { "_dis1": "83 17", "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "group of people characterized by being conservative or traditional; method for accomplishing a task, a style, or a way of thinking that was employed in a former era", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "vecchia scuola" }, { "_dis1": "83 17", "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "group of people characterized by being conservative or traditional; method for accomplishing a task, a style, or a way of thinking that was employed in a former era", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "stary nurt" }, { "_dis1": "83 17", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "stáraja škóla", "sense": "group of people characterized by being conservative or traditional; method for accomplishing a task, a style, or a way of thinking that was employed in a former era", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "ста́рая шко́ла" }, { "_dis1": "83 17", "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "group of people characterized by being conservative or traditional; method for accomplishing a task, a style, or a way of thinking that was employed in a former era", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "vieja escuela" } ] }, { "categories": [ { "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Music", "orig": "en:Music", "parents": [ "Art", "Sound", "Culture", "Energy", "Society", "Nature", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w" }, { "_dis": "26 11 32 19 12", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with French translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "derived": [ { "_dis1": "19 81", "word": "old schooler" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1992 October 5, The Invisible Man, “[W]hat is all this fake shit”, in alt.rap (Usenet):", "text": "Rap is not one particular thing. 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or, A Picture of America: […], London: […] W[illiam] Clowes, […] for W[illiam] Simpkin and R[ichard] Marshall, […], →OCLC, footnote *, page 17:", "text": "Local politicians assume various appellations, such as New School and Old School Democrats, Snyderites, Clintonians, and many others, mostly derived from the name or principles of some popular demagogue.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1862 (date written), Ida Husted Harper, quoting Theodore Tilton, “Mob Experience—Civil War. 1861–1862.”, in The Life and Work of Susan B. 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She’d never buy ready-made cookie dough.", "type": "example" }, { "ref": "1749, [Alain-René Lesage], “Gil Blas Sets Out for the Asturias; Passes through Valladolid, where He Visits His Old Master Doctor Sangrado, and Meets, by Accident, with Signior Manuel Ordonnez, Director of the Hospital.”, in [Tobias George Smollett], transl., The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, volume IV, London: […] J. Osborn, […], →OCLC, book X, page 6:", "text": "[A]s I am grand nephevv to a phyſician of the old ſchool, give me leave to revolt vvith you againſt chymical medicines. […] I vvould vvillingly perform the office of executioner to theſe ignorant innovators, of vvhom you complain vvith ſuch eloquence and juſtice.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1906 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “The Doctor’s Dilemma”, in The Doctor’s Dilemma, Getting Married, & The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet, London: Constable and Company, published 1911, →OCLC, Act I, page 23:", "text": "Aha! Haha! 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