Archaic

(A rose from Emily)Archaic- Adjective

Pronounce: ahr-key-ik

Archaic-(1)marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated.

(2) commonly used in an earlier time but rare in present-day usage except to suggest the older time, as in religious rituals or historical novels.

Sentence-A week later the mayor wrote her himself offering to call and send his car for her, and received in reply a note on paper of an Archaic shape, in a thin, flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at  all.

 

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