old style

NOUN
  1. a typeface (based on an 18th century design) distinguished by irregularity and slanted ascender serifs and little contrast between light and heavy strokes
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  • N+1 apes the old style of worthy Jewish intellectuals, alongside the old style of worthy Cyril-Connolly-style balanced intellectual survey—of the sort that recalls the Johnsonian pleonasm which opens “The Vanity of Human Wishes”—which treats all the artistic developments of all the separate countries of Europe as though they were worthy of serious consideration. WHY WE LOVE TLS (UPDATED)
  • Sadly no – but I did buy an old style big screen TV just as thin plasma-y things were coming in – it weighs like 150 pounds. Mac nerds furiously adjusting underpants all day today
  • They all begin climbing into old style pressure suits, to add an extra safety factor above their life belts.
  • Their variety show is based on the old style travelling show, which came to towns and villages around Ireland in the old days.
  • Old style anthropological methods treated Indigenous peoples as historical curiosities, as remnants of a dead culture.
  • To their credit, Pollack and his scriptwriters have tried to tackle all the necessaries of a proper old style political thriller head on.
  • The light fixtures were the old style that directed the light straight up. Christianity Today
  • The big leaves of a squash plant are just as striking as the similar leaves of gunnera, a perennial much prized by lovers of bold style.
  • I like a bit splore, but give it to me in our old style, with the tartan instead of buff, and the target for breastplate and taslets. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
  • I think we're looking at a bunch of old style Colonialists - and the country being colonised is England. “End of Welfare”.
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