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Entry 3 senses Webster, 1913

Old-fashioned

/ōlˌ-dfăsh'-ənd/ · Old·-fash·ioned · IPA /oʊldˈfæʃənd/
01 a. Formed according to old or obsolete fashion or pattern; belonging to or characteristic of times past; adhering to old customs, styles, or i…
  1. 1.
    Formed according to old or obsolete fashion or pattern; belonging to or characteristic of times past; adhering to old customs, styles, or ideas; as, an old-fashioned dress, girl; old-fashioned wire-rimmed glasses.
    “This old-fashioned, quaint abode.” — Longfellow.
  2. 2.
    Unacceptable or suboptimum because of having been superseded by something more recent; outmoded{2}; out-of-date.
  3. 3.
    Unfashionably out of date; out of style.
Syn. antique, old-hat(predicate), outmoded, out-of-date. — Syn. -- demode, out of fashion(predicate), out of style(predicate), passe, passee.