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time-honoured, time-honored Am ADJ

I . honour, honor Am [ˈɒnə] N

II . honour, honor Am [ˈɒnə] VB trans

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honour, honor Am [ˈɒnə]

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With sloops, ketches and schooners the starboard yardarm or spreader of the highest or main mast is the second most honoured position.
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Here was a country dear to all who love that which is old and quaint, time-honoured, and reminiscent of past ages.
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As in many polytheistic systems, the local spirits honoured were those of both the wild and cultivated landscapes and their inhabitants.
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Works that are honoured vary and have included poetry, short stories, novels, plays, folklore as well as scholarly and religious works.
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The company also said that all prepaid goods and services, gift vouchers and credit notes, will be honoured.
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He is honoured as the patron saint of notaries and secretaries, and invoked against chilblains and scurf.
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And to be fair, there was something rather time-honoured about it.
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In her schema, the time-honoured name for non-realistic fiction is romance.
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He went round to sort it out in the time-honoured fashion of mining communities.
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In a statement it added that all prepaid goods and services, together with gift vouchers and credit notes, will be honoured.
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