old-fashioned look

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Noun

old-fashioned look (plural old-fashioned looks)

1. (idiomatic) A glance of disdain or disapproval.
   • 2001, Dornford Yates, B-Berry and I Look Back, page 141:

     He produced his Agreement and, as he put it in – that is to say, tendered it as evidence – he gave me an old-fashioned look; and that, of course, told me that the rotten thing wasn't stamped.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see old-fashioned,‎ look.

   The sepia photographs had an old-fashioned look.