old-line

[ ohld-lahyn ]

/ ˈoʊldˈlaɪn /

following or supporting conservative or traditional ideas, beliefs, customs, etc.

long established; traditional: old-line society.

Origin of old-line

First recorded in 1855–60

The old-line Conservatives opened up to new ideas and new voters, yes.

Are Conservative Civil Wars a Good Idea? |David Frum |March 4, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
The case is reduced to a rescue of two old-line industrial companies that bend metal in the Midwest.

The Stimulus and Health Care President Runs on ... Tires and Cars? |David Frum |October 23, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Old-line media firms such as newspapers, book companies and the major networks may find themselves overmatched.

President Obama Courts Silicon Valley’s New Digital Aristocracy |Joel Kotkin |February 15, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
But all is not well at the old-line American Conservative Union, which throws the annual party.

The Right Invades Washington |Samuel P. Jacobs, Shushannah Walshe |February 8, 2011 |DAILY BEAST

Jobs in the publishing world will shift away from old-line manufacturing and warehousing to technology, editorial, and creative.

Will the Book Survive? |David "Skip" Prichard |July 28, 2010 |DAILY BEAST
The party passed over Colonel Roosevelt; the memory of 1912 was still too bitter to permit the old-line leaders to accept him.

Woodrow Wilson's Administration and Achievements |Frank B. Lord and James William Bryan
Governor Rector had been elected, in the autumn of 1860, by the Democrats and old-line Whigs.

The American Indian as Slaveholder and Seccessionist |Annie Heloise Abel
His cast of mind was essentially conservative, and down to 1856 he would no doubt have called himself an old-line Whig.

William Hickling Prescott |Harry Thurston Peck
In the first place, I would say he was not an old-line Whig.

The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Volume Four |Abraham Lincoln
And his opinion was that the old-line colleges tended to destroy individuality and smother initiative.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 11 (of 14) |Elbert Hubbard

old-line

US and Canadian conservative; old-fashioned

well-established; traditional

old-liner, noun