old style

noun

1. Also oldstyle. Printing. a type style differentiated from modern by the more or less uniform thickness of all strokes and by slanted serifs.
2. (initial capital letters) time reckoned according to the Julian calendar. Compare New Style.

adjective

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

old style

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noun

1. printing a type style reviving the characteristics of old face

Old Style

²

noun

1. the former method of reckoning dates using the Julian calendar Compare New Style

Word History and Origins

Origin of old style¹

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

But Schoenberg said he often longed to write in the old style.

From Los Angeles Times

“Similar grass to what we play at home. Similar kind of old style, tree-lined golf course, which is what I grew up on.”

From Seattle Times

As time progressed, the rapper's attempts to return to his old style have not always been well received by Gen Z audiences, some calling for him to be cancelled.

From BBC

Sky Sports' technical analyst Sam Collins calls it "old style".

From BBC

"He is a first-rate intellectual of the old style but he has a narrow world view because he doesn't know the world," says a childhood friend who declined to be named.

From Reuters