old style

noun

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.

adjective

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

Origin of old style

First recorded in 1865–70

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Examples from the Web for old style

Contemporary Examples of old style

Of course, that doesn't mean that we should return to the old-style Mom's-home-Dad-works marriage.
One Reason Women Stay Home: Because It's Easier on Everyone
Megan McArdle
March 18, 2013
“WANTED,” the ad reads in a mock-up of old-style Wild West posters.
Texas Calls All Gun-Toting Yanks
David Freedlander
January 16, 2013
Like an old-style Conservative, David Cameron is talking tough.
Cameron Gets Tough
William Underhill
August 10, 2011
The team that once promised to rid us of old-style politics is clinging to that well-worn Washington tactic: Blame the other guy.
The Bush Book Bomb
Matt Latimer
July 28, 2010
Cameron's "Big Idea" is that the world has changed, and that old-style, top-down government is a relic of a bygone era.
England Goes Hollywood
Alex Massie
February 13, 2010

Historical Examples of old style

With old-style missiles we could do everything we've accomplished so far.
Talents, Incorporated
William Fitzgerald Jenkins
The old-style caliph business as conducted by Mr. Rashid is not safe.
Strictly Business
O. Henry
This gun had a carriage provided with the old-style single trail.
America's Munitions 1917-1918
Benedict Crowell
You could enjoy the true, old-style, princely Louisiana hospitality there.
Miss Ravenel's conversion from secession to loyalty
J. W. de Forest
If the bathing suits had been of the old-style no objection to this would have been made.
Nonsenseorship
G. G. Putnam and Others

British Dictionary definitions for old style

old style

noun

printing a type style reviving the characteristics of old face

Old Style

noun

the former method of reckoning dates using the Julian calendarCompare New Style

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