old style


noun
  1. Also oldstyle .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.

Origin of old style

1
First recorded in 1865–70

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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 Bone
  • Cloister 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)

old style

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

British Dictionary definitions for Old Style (2 of 2)

Old Style

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

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