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noun
Also oldstyle .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.
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Origin of old style First recorded in 1865â70
Words nearby old style old stager ,
old stamping ground ,
oldster ,
Old Stoa ,
Old Stone Age ,
old style ,
old sweat ,
Old Swedish ,
old talk ,
Old Test. ,
Old Testament
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How to use old style in a sentence Rather, Mondaleâs defeat marked the end of an old style of politics rooted in the social gospel and a sense of shared sacrifice â a style that would be replaced with an approach glorifying individualism and self-gratification.
So here I am in my requisite Lululemon pants, grunting along to an old hip-hop song at a most ungodly hour.
Her style, much like her diminutive nickname, is best described as âHamptons tweeââpreppy and peppy.
It would became one of the first great mysteries in the United States of America, as it was only then 23 years old.
To borrow an old right-wing talking point, these people are angry no matter what we do.
He plays an aging punk rocker and I play the drummer from his old band.
Davy looked around and saw an old man coming toward them across the lawn.
His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.
Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.
Vicars' wives had come and gone, but all had submitted, some after a brief struggle, to old Mrs. Wurzel's sway.
But with all her advantages Miss Solomonson failed with the old lord, and she abuses him to this day.
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British Dictionary definitions for old style (1 of 2)
noun
printing a type style reviving the characteristics of old face
British Dictionary definitions for old style (2 of 2)
noun
the former method of reckoning dates using the Julian calendar Compare New Style Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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