0 something such as a book or a film that is very old-fashioned, often in a way that is funny to people now
The book is a period piece in both sources and outlook.
The fact that the story is a period piece (very important from our point of view) is emphasised by telling it in the form of a -ashback.
In future the reports of this debate will read like a period piece.
It is a period piece, not a bridge.
It is a pathetic period piece.
But this didn't stop the page from looking like a 1920s period piece.
The story is a period piece in a mental institution based largely on truth and truth is always scarier than fiction.
It was a period piece, and yet of all time.