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timeworn

adjective

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈtaɪm.wɔɹn/

adj

Etymology: From time + worn.

  1. Showing the effects of wear due to long use.

    The roofs of these time-worn habitations are full of holes, and have been patched here and there with laths; […]

    After walking the timeworn horizons out of Africa, I have entered a corrugated maze, a knotted crossroad of the world where landscape is read like sacrament, a labyrinth of echoing faiths called the Middle East.

  2. Banal or trite; hackneyed or overused.