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noun The way in which something is said, done, expressed, or performed: a style of speech and writing.
noun The combination of distinctive features of literary or artistic expression, execution, or performance characterizing a particular person, group, school, or era.
noun Sort; type: a style of furniture.

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An iron instrument, in the form of a bodkin tapering to a point at one end, used, in one of the methods of writing practised in ancient and medieval times, for scratching the letters into a waxed tablet, the other end being blunt for rubbing out writing and smoothing the tablet; figuratively, any writing-instrument. But this my style no living man shall touch, If first I be not forced by base reproach; But like a sheathed sword it shall defend My innocent life. B. Jonson, Poetaster, v. 1. Some wrought in Silks, some writ in tender Barks; Some the sharp Stile in waxen Tables marks. Cowley, Davideis, i.
Something similar in form to the instrument above described, or in some respect suggestive of it. A pointed or needle-like tool, implement, or attachment, as the marking-point in the telegraph or phonograph, a graver, or an etching-needle. In zoology and anal., a small, slender, pointed process or part; a styloid or styliform part or organ; a stylet; of spongespicules, a stylus. Specifically, in entomology: (1) Same as stylet, 3. (2) The bristle or seta of the antenna of a dipter; a stylus. See cuts under Gordius and Rhynchocœla.
Mode of expression in writing or speaking; characteristic diction; a particular method of expressing thought by selection or collocation of words, distinct in some respect from other methods, as determined by nationality, period, literary form, individuality, etc.; in an absolute sense, appropriate or suitable diction; conformity to an approved literary standard: as, the style of Shakspere or of Dickens; antiquated or modern style; didactic, poetic, or forensic style; a pedantic style; a nervous style; a cynical style. Stile is a constant & continuall phrase or tenour of speaking and writing, extending to the whole tale or processe of the poeme or historie, and not properly to any peece or member of a tale. Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 123. Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a style. Swift. Jeffreys spoke against the motion in the coarse and savage style of which he was a master. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vi. If thought is the gold, style is the stamp which makes it current, and says under what king it was issued. Dr. J. Brown, Spare Hours, 3d ser., p. 277.

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Unlike many sunglasses that look over-styled, the Erlik Vice model strikes a good balance between trend and longevity. — AskMen.com - HOME PAGE
This is 80 hours 'worth of classically-styled, menu-driven, dungeon-delving JRPG action. — Gaming Nexus
Louisiana may soon be the first state to push its retirement savings into a self-styled, terror-free index. — The Independent Weekly
Just like the self-styled, progressive European liberals mentioned above, the radical nationalists of 1930s Iraq insisted on particularistic modalities of performance in the name of supposedly universal principles. — MRZine.org
The collection was well styled, and it is really something I could see everyone wearing. — FASHION INDIE » FASHION PORN

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