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well-worn, ppl. a.
1. Much worn or used; fig. trite, hackneyed.
1621T. Williamson tr. Goulart's Wise Vieillard 53 It is a well worne saying, That [etc.]. 1786Burns Tam Samson Epit., Tam Samson's weel-worn clay here lies. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xii, The old man was seated by the fire with his well-worn pocket Bible in his hands. 1842Tennyson Gardener's Dau. 108 A well-worn pathway. 1849Sir F. B. Head Stokers & Pokers iii. 39 That variety of free and easy well-worn costumes in which quiet-minded people usually travel. 1858Merivale Rom. Emp. liv. (1863) VI. 411 The mind of the educated classes still flowed freely enough in the well-worn channels of literature. 1905‘G. Thorne’ Lost Cause v, It is a trite and well-worn aphorism that no event is trivial.
2. Becomingly carried or displayed.
1814Byron Lara i. xxvii, To whom he showed nor deference nor disdain, But that well-worn reserve which proved he knew No sympathy with that familiar crew. |