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It's times like these I wish Nintendo wouldn't have skipped on Wii's graphical power though, as the style is awesome.

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  1. noun The way in which something is said, done, expressed, or performed: a style of speech and writing.
  2. noun The combination of distinctive features of literary or artistic expression, execution, or performance characterizing a particular person, group, school, or era.
  3. noun Sort; type: a style of furniture.
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin stylus, stilus, spike, pointed instrument used for writing, style; see stylus.

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  1. Formerly also, and properly, stile; also in def. 1, as L., stylus, properly stilus; from Old French style, stile, French style = Spanish Portuguese estilo = Italian stilo, from Latin stăilus, in Middle Latin also, improperly, stylus, a stake, pale, a pointed instrument used about plants, the stem or stalk of a plant, and especially for scribing on a waxen tablet, hence writing, manner of writing, mode of expression in writing or speech, style; perhaps earlier with long vowel, stīhts, for orig. *stiglus, from √ stig in stinguere = Greek στίζειν, pierce, stick, puncture (see stick, stigma); otherwise akin to Old High German Middle High German stil, German stiel, a handle, etc., Anglo-Saxon stæl, stel, English stale, steal, a handle: see stale. The word is properly written stile; the spelling style is in simulation of the Greek στῦλοσ, σ1, a pillar, which is not connected (see style).
  2. Formerly also, and properly, stile; from style, n.
  3. Formerly also stile (in sense 1); from New Latin stylus, a style of a plant, from Middle Latin stylus, also improperly stilus, a pillar, from Greek στῦλος, a pillar, column, also a post, pale: not connected with L. stilus, improperly written stylus, a stake, pale, a pointed instrument, etc., with which the word has been associated, so that the English styleand style are now commonly confused.
 

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