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.
- Also old-style. Typography. noting or descriptive of a font of numerals of which some part extends below the baseline.
Origin of old style
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.
“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 of old style
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
Old Style
- the former method of reckoning dates using the Julian calendarCompare New Style