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house style

British

noun

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

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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

He was the quintessential example of McMahon’s house style, which preferred short, theatrical matches between impossibly large superstars.

From Salon • Jul. 24, 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

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

A: One of the main differences with the English country house style is that we don’t mind things to be a bit more eclectic, old, roughed up, faded and layered over time.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 23, 2021

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