They conserved archaic customs, manners, etiquette, descriptions of attire, weapon, etc., and have specific composition, narration and poetics.

Do you hold to that archaic custom?

Thus he has revived an archaic custom as one of the cruelest weapons an Orthodox Jewish father can use in a bitter divorce battle.

This archaic custom was explained with an aition or "origin myth" about Hera and Zeus, which is related by Pausanias:

Romuva feasts are based on traditional archaic Lithuanian customs preserved in authenthic form, folklore.

He was against polygamy and thought that it was an archaic custom.

Their captors live in pristine isolation, following archaic customs in a place that time seems to have passed by.

During this period, the region became a major focus of historians, linguists and ethnologists, interested in its archaic customs, language and common law.

For that matter, the habit had almost died out; it must have been revived since the pussies came, like so many archaic customs.

Marriage had mythical precedents, starting with the abduction of the Sabine Women, which may reflect the archaic custom of bride abduction.