Sentence examples for archaic name from inspiring English sources

The archaic name suits the images.

The use of the archaic name Al Andalus left most Spaniards nonplussed.

Patagón is the ancient, archaic name for the land of Patagonia.

(Albion is the archaic name for Britain; the collector will not reveal his identity because his first collection was stolen in 1979).

On these islands, as its name attests, the hard, straight twigs once made enviable spindles; and with another use came another archaic name, the skewerwood tree.

Thanks in part to the museum's archaic name, with its evocation of a long-lost British Empire, the space had a very particular atmosphere: it made a fetish of the nuts and bolts of warfare in a fashion that seemed primarily designed to appeal to little boys.

His prayer is undated, but the archaic names painstakingly listed suggest it is not recent.

Notwithstanding the archaic names and terminologies, or the new stationery printed with departmental logos, Mosul was operated on a melange of systems, ranging from capitalist free-market to a totalitarian command economy.

Injections at two, three, four, 12 and 13 months, for diphtheria, tetanus, tuberculosis, pertussis, polio – all these archaic names, not things that you actually think your child is going to catch.

The rest of Mr. Eco's cast of characters may have archaic names like Ardzrouni, Zosimos and Kyot, but they all talk with a kind of sophomoric brightness that robs them of exoticism or strangeness.

Taking a slightly different tack, uBioRSS ("a taxonomically intelligent feeder reader") helps scientists discover discussions based on taxonomic categories or specific organism names, with a lot of intelligence behind the scenes to reconcile various terminologies, from archaic names to common names.