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ye olde, a.|jiː əʊld, ˈəʊldiː|
[f. ye graphic var. of the dem. a. (see Y 3) + olde a.]
Employed esp. commercially to suggest (spurious) antiquity in collocations the other words of which are often also archaistically spelt. Also absol. as n., a building characterized by (spurious) antique furnishings.
1896W. Wroth London Pleasure Gardens i. 56 A modern public-house. ‘Ye olde Bagnigge Wells.’ 1900Confectioners' Union Hand-bk. 167 Ye olde English toffee. 1919Wodehouse Damsel in Distress xxvi. 298 In London, when a gentlewoman becomes distressed..she collects about her two or three other distressed gentlewomen..and starts a tea-shop in the West-End, which she calls Ye Oak Leaf, Ye Olde Willow-Pattern, Ye Linden-Tree, or Ye Snug Harbour, according to personal taste. 1933[see olde a.]. 1951‘M. Innes’ Operation Pax v. ii. 197 Not a tourist centre. Nothing ye olde. 1972P. Cleife Slick & Dead iv. 36 The Inn was the complete trendy-contemporary Ye Olde—all ship's lanterns, copper pans, chintz and candelabra. 1977New Yorker 16 May 107/1 Quincy Market..basically a suburban shopping mall done up in the instant charm of ye olde exposed brick. |