📚 Handed-down, adjective. ❓ Definition: Passed on to a later generation or age. ❗️ Examples: 1. Handed-down family recipes. 2. Without handed-down prejudices, children will behave in a spirit of complete even-handedness. 3. He was without personal vanity, surprising the Heythrop hunt by turning out in a yellow cardigan and his colleagues by wearing handed-down clothes and his son's shoes. 4. As for beauty, granny had to depend on handed-down tips and recipes made from easily obtainable ingredients. 5. The Hebrews must certainly have encountered them, and learned the handed-down traditions of early Mesopotamia, the myths and tales. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic