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

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|DAILY BEAST
“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|DAILY BEAST
Like an old-style Conservative, David Cameron is talking tough.
Cameron Gets Tough|William Underhill|August 10, 2011|DAILY BEAST
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|DAILY BEAST

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|DAILY BEAST
The court was in an old-style Spanish house, and the room was vacant except for buzzing flies.
Adventures in Swaziland|Owen Rowe O'Neil
They separated humor from the old-style farce and gave it taste and gentility.
Our Legal Heritage, 5th Ed.|S. A. Reilly
At all of its wide, old-style windows, ruffled shades of straw-coloured silk were drawn.
The Day of Days|Louis Joseph Vance
Many retail coffee stores also employ premiums, using both the old-style and "advance" methods.
All About Coffee|William H. Ukers
The artists have continued to perform the old classics in tragedy or comedy, and the old-style operette.
The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism|Bertrand Russell

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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