timeworn
adjective
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Pronunciation: /ˈtaɪm.wɔɹn/
adj
Etymology: From time + worn.
- 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.”
- Banal or trite; hackneyed or overused.