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throwback
(throw|back)
Pronunciation:
/ˈθrəʊbak/
noun
a reversion to an earlier ancestral characteristic:
the eyes could be an ancestral throwback
a person or thing having the characteristics of a former time:
a lot of his work is
a throwback to
the fifties
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