Traditionally, women were barred from making sushi in Japan, on the archaic theory that their hands were too warm to handle raw fish.
That could sound the death knell for the archaic electoral college which handed him the job thanks to trade union votes on a pathetic turn-out even though his brother had won among MPs and party members.
She used her hands in an archaic way, fingers together, thumbs separated and crooked back toward the hand at the last joint.' Robbins began to think about hands.
The first half of his ballet is rich in Nijinsky-esque detail: archaic profile poses, delicately curled hand gestures.
Hand holding becomes archaic when information is everywhere.
(Farren, on the other hand, in a distinctly archaic mode, complained that the painter had made her look too thin).
Ms. Giberson makes all of her clothes herself, mostly using techniques learned from archaic sewing manuals, and mostly by hand.
The motif of Ganesha turning his trunk sharply to his left to taste a sweet in his lower-left hand is a particularly archaic feature.
To peg ratings in some local markets, it relies on hand-scrawled diaries, an archaic practice in use back when TVhad only three or four channels.
The archaic religion believed to have been handed down from the earliest kings of Rome was the foundation of the mos maiorum, "the way of the ancestors" or "tradition", viewed as central to Roman identity.
