The Only Use of
archaic
in
1984, by Orwell
- The pen was an archaic instrument, seldom used even for signatures, and he had procured one, furtively and with some difficulty, simply because of a feeling that the beautiful creamy paper deserved to be written on with a real nib instead of being scratched with an ink-pencil.†
p. 6.9
Definition:
so extremely old as to seem to belong to an earlier period; or obsolete