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old style
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.
old style
1noun
- printing a type style reviving the characteristics of old face
Old Style
2noun
- the former method of reckoning dates using the Julian calendar Compare New Style
Word History and Origins
Origin of old style1
Example Sentences
Rather, Mondale’s defeat marked the end of an old style of politics rooted in the social gospel and a sense of shared sacrifice — a style that would be replaced with an approach glorifying individualism and self-gratification.
Gose is athousand-year-old style of German malted wheat beer brewed with coriander and salt.
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.
For a nice night out, old style, cocktails and steaks, I like the Prime Rib.
Like an old-style Conservative, David Cameron is talking tough.
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.
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.
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