old style
- Also old·style. Printing. a type style differentiated from modern by the more or less uniform thickness of all strokes and by slanted serifs.
- (initial capital letters) time reckoned according to the Julian calendar.Compare New Style.
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- Also old-style. Typography. noting or descriptive of a font of numerals of which some part extends below the baseline.
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Origin of old style
First recorded in 1865–70
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Examples from the Web for old style
Contemporary Examples
Of course, that doesn't mean that we should return to the old-style Mom's-home-Dad-works marriage.
“WANTED,” the ad reads in a mock-up of old-style Wild West posters.
Like an old-style Conservative, David Cameron is talking tough.
The team that once promised to rid us of old-style politics is clinging to that well-worn Washington tactic: Blame the other guy.
Cameron's "Big Idea" is that the world has changed, and that old-style, top-down government is a relic of a bygone era.
Historical Examples
With old-style missiles we could do everything we've accomplished so far.
Talents, IncorporatedWilliam Fitzgerald Jenkins
The old-style caliph business as conducted by Mr. Rashid is not safe.
Strictly BusinessO. Henry
This gun had a carriage provided with the old-style single trail.
America's Munitions 1917-1918Benedict Crowell
You could enjoy the true, old-style, princely Louisiana hospitality there.
Miss Ravenel's conversion from secession to loyaltyJ. W. de Forest
If the bathing suits had been of the old-style no objection to this would have been made.
NonsenseorshipG. G. Putnam and Others
old style
- printing a type style reviving the characteristics of old face
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Old Style
- the former method of reckoning dates using the Julian calendarCompare New Style
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