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  • adjective not brought up to date

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Examples

  • The key there is the food, which is reliable in an unstinting, unmodernised, bourgeois way.

    Restaurant review: Brasserie Toulouse Lautrec Jay Rayner 2010

  • Dazedly my uncle opened the connecting door and I followed him into the large unmodernised kitchen, an expanse of black and white tiling still called on old castle plans 'the cold preparation room'.

    They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010

  • It is for sale for £615,000, up from a typical £330,000 for an unmodernised house three years ago, through Faron Sutaria (020 8740 7766).

    Archive 2008-10-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • Dazedly my uncle opened the connecting door and I followed him into the large unmodernised kitchen, an expanse of black and white tiling still called on old castle plans 'the cold preparation room'.

    To The Hilt Francis, Dick, 1920- 1996

  • There was a smattering of corner shops, where neighbour met neighbour, and information was passed on, and a few small unmodernised pubs, where strangers did not go unnoticed for long.

    Hide And Seek Rankin, Ian 1990

  • This results in an unstandardised and unmodernised text.

    The Scandal of 'Ulysses' Kidd, John 1988

  • If any of your readers can inform me of another copy of the above ballad, especially unmodernised (the versification must have suffered in the frequent reprints) and in black-letter of an early date, they will do me a favour.

    Notes and Queries, Number 62, January 4, 1851 Various

  • Most of her UK buyers want unmodernised properties.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • If you find an unmodernised home in Chelsea, it's a case of 'join the queue'.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • The site is still being built: a random search finds just 13 unmodernised homes in London, for example.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

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