All 4 Uses of
archaic
in
The Handmaid's Tale
- This is the kind of touch they like: folk art, archaic, made by women, in their spare time, from things that have no further use.†
Chpt 2 *
- It's archaic.†
Chpt 29
- It's an archaic phrase.†
Chpt 36
- The superscription "The Handmaid's Tale" was appended to it by Professor Wade, partly in homage to the great Geoffrey Chaucer; but those of you who know Professor Wade informally, as I do, will understand when I say that I am sure all puns were intentional, particularly that having to do with the archaic vulgar signification of the word tail; that being, to some extent, the bone, as it were, of contention, in that phase of Gileadean society of which our saga treats.†
Chpt 47
Definition:
so extremely old as to seem to belong to an earlier period; or obsolete