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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
old-style
adjective
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▪ But from next month, new laws will make it illegal to sell old-style foam-filled furniture.
▪ For wherever the old job descriptions dissolve, people lose their need for the old-style unions.
▪ In the old-style office, the boss yelled, the employees squirmed, and maybe the work got done.
▪ It is old-style materialism writ large.
▪ The legacy of the Thomson family is that the Machrihanish membership includes a lot of players making good scores with old-style swings.
▪ The removal of old-style apartheid and the beginnings of a democratic society have brought more bloodshed than ever.
▪ This attitude gave further urgency to Left campaigns against the government who were seen as worse than the old-style Conservatives.
▪ Viktor Barannikov gave an old-style speech warning of the threat of foreign intelligence services and rising crime.

Usage examples of "old-style".

Mahnmut knew, incorporated visualizations of radio frequencies and magnetic field lines, neither common to old-style humans, which made a lot more sense for a moravec working in the hard radiation fields of Galilean space.

The first few ranks were heavy-armed, plate rerebraces and vambraces on their arms instead of mail sleeves, heavy pauldrons protecting their shoulders, visored helmets, mounted on huge chargers, real old-style brewery-wagon horses.

Though some still wore such old-style rapiers, few still fought with them, preferring the lighter, nimbler smallsword, for good reason: while a man with a rapier made one thrust, the bearer of a smallsword could parry and riposte twice, despite the difference in length.

He wore a standard gray business one-piece and sandals and looked ordinary enough, save for the old-style tripolar droud sockets on the sides of his shaved skull.

Old-style environmentalists had protested bringing nuclear power to Antarctica, while the new-style environmentalists protested against further use of fuel oil that soiled the increasingly polluted Antarctic air with its sooty emissions.

The old-style 'proletarian' -- collarless, unshaven and with muscles warped by heavy labour -- still exists, but he is constantly decreasing in numbers.

On his feet were two-tone barkers and—I was guessing under the saggy baggy striders—argyles held up by old-style garters.

The second-wave monitors refitted with the new datalink systems were pulled from the assault queue, but the fifteen more expendable monitors still equipped with the old-style datalink moved to the front, accompanied by seventy-six, battlecruisers, eighteen light cruisers, and all of the new ramming ships.

The door panels, trunk, roof, and engine compartment were armoured with Kevlar, aluminium oxide ballistic ceramic tiles, which was lighter than the old-style heavy steel plate that tended to render a vehicle clumsy and so impede its performance.

And hasn't this aneroid barometer got cards and spades over the old-style models?

Not all types of coal can be made into coke in an old-style beehive oven.

Just an old-style block of flats on the corner of Wilmslow and Platt.

It made a horrible whining noise reminiscent of an old-style dentist's drill, the kind still used in horror videos.

He had made it too clear that he was available for good times only, not for long times and old-style fidelity.

Technicians started carrying out sound-powered communications systems, simple Korean War-era field telephones, and old-style greaseboards to replace the now-dark digital information screens.