old photograph

collocation in English

meaningsofoldandphotograph

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old
adjective
uk
/əʊld/us
/oʊld/
having lived or existed for ...
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photograph
noun[C]
uk
/ˈfəʊ.tə.ɡrɑːf/us
/ˈfoʊ.t̬oʊ.ɡræf/
a picture produced using ...
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(Definition ofoldandphotographfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofold photograph

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The book is written in clear and elegant prose and is well illustrated with architectural drawings, old photographs, and reproductions of tourist brochures, posters, and postcards.
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This fact alone imbues the recording with that unique affect we sometimes find hidden in old photographs, the feeling that we are spying or eavesdropping on the dead.
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Old photographs from the 1930s and post-war show that a huge number of people cycled to work.
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However, they are supposed to use old photographs or information on the rating list.
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I do not want future generations to look back on old photographs of our green and pleasant land and have to ponder why we let it go.
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Copiers come up holding oneoldphotograph.
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For many people, the visual cells simply cease to function, just as the colours fade in anoldphotograph: that is known as dry degeneration.
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We would have to consider updating the photograph, lest that politician's vanity of addressing himself by anoldphotographcreeps into the system.
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Other people find that their visual cells simply stop working, with an effect similar to colours fading in anoldphotograph.
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While his younger brother rests alongside him, the main character browses from the beginning to the end of anoldphotographalbum.
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He finds anoldphotographof a seaside town cradled on a hillside.
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One is seen in theoldphotograph(above left), over a palmette ornament at the top of the window arch.
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He started with his grandfather's identity document, spectacles, an address book, anoldphotograph, and the memories of relatives.
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Anoldphotographshows a big pond in front of it and cedars round it; it faced north.
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Anoldphotographand memories of a past life-style.
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Anoldphotographtaken on the day of the inauguration show the buildings of the square still incomplete and covered for the civil ceremony in scenery representing good luck.
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They had done some neat stuff: they had found old photographs that were taken by occasional visitors and put them next to the maps.
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The site includes a replica of the original home in which he was born, constructed in 1953 using anoldphotographof the house as a guide.
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While there is good reason to resort to old photographs to demonstrate the saddle nose of congenital syphilis, there should be no need to use antique illustrations of endocrine disorders.
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