old style


noun
  1. Also oldstyle .Printing. a type style differentiated from modern by the more or less uniform thickness of all strokes and by slanted serifs.

  2. (initial capital letters) time reckoned according to the Julian calendar.: Compare New Style.

adjective
  1. Also old-style .Typography. noting or descriptive of a font of numerals of which some part extends below the baseline.

Origin of old style

1
First recorded in 1865–70

Words Nearby old style

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How to use old style in a sentence

  • Like an old-style Conservative, David Cameron is talking tough.

    Cameron Gets Tough | William Underhill | August 10, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • It may be looked upon as the apotheosis of the old style of organ-building, with low pressures, duplication, and mixtures.

  • Spirits of the old style used to delight in the darkness of night, but sometimes they'd show their pale faces by moonlight.

  • But this was not the old style of industry, with its reasonable desire for moderate profits.

    Skipper Worse | Alexander Lange Kielland
  • The Norwich Guardians had found, as others have done since, that the old style of indoor apprenticeship was nearly extinct.

  • The first deals with the value of the old-style wire fences when feeding calves.

British Dictionary definitions for old style (1 of 2)

old style

noun
  1. printing a type style reviving the characteristics of old face

British Dictionary definitions for Old Style (2 of 2)

Old Style

noun
  1. the former method of reckoning dates using the Julian calendar: Compare New Style

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