old style
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.
Also old-style .Typography. noting or descriptive of a font of numerals of which some part extends below the baseline.
Origin of old style
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How to use old style in a sentence
It was an oldstyle table built for six-faced dice, and operated on percentage—most of the time.
Noble Redman | Jesse Franklin BoneCloister Oldstyle type, commended, 132;a safe norm for poetry, 58.
The Booklover and His Books | Harry Lyman Koopman
British Dictionary definitions for old style (1 of 2)
printing a type style reviving the characteristics of old face
British Dictionary definitions for Old Style (2 of 2)
the former method of reckoning dates using the Julian calendar: Compare New Style
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