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house style

British  

noun

  1. a set of rules concerning spellings, typography, etc, observed by editorial and printing staff in a particular publishing or printing company

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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While the 12Cilindri is technically evolved from the 812 Competizione, the new car’s styling represents a major change in Ferrari’s house style.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 23, 2025

Tse steers us around to the notion of a certain intimacy they like to work at, a realist aesthetic that might be called the Morot house style.

From Los Angeles Times May 14, 2025

The Ghibli house style has been refined to perfection at this point.

From Salon Dec. 23, 2023

The well-trimmed lawns and planned informality of gardens and ponds adjacent to the house partly reflect the English and French traditions inspired by the house style itself — nature adapted to create aesthetic effects.

From Seattle Times Oct. 14, 2023

How at any young pizzeria, what appears as the dinner rush is in fact someone’s obsessive, repetitive and never-ending odyssey to establish and maintain house style.

From New York Times Apr. 4, 2022

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