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The Wolfe Tones are an Irish rebel music band deeply rooted in Irish traditional music.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or in accord with tradition: a traditional wedding ceremony.

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  • Both are grown commercially in China and have apparently been used in Chinese traditional medicine for thousands of years.
  • Disney pushed for something they could identify as a traditional Disney product. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 04-05 - October-November 1996
  • The uncertain meaning of friend status in these systems raises questions about whether and how sociometric popularity conveys attractiveness in non-traditional, non-linear ways. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The WakeEd blog is devoted to discussing and answering questions about the major issues facing the Wake County school system: the reassignment of thousands of students, the conversion of traditional-calendar schools to a year-round schedule, the district's response to record growth and a pending bond issue in 2009. —  newsobserver.com blogs
  • Sadly, it's human nature to cling to the frame in which you came up -- traditional media people will never fully reconcile themselves to the blogosphere, talk radio people will always tend to view it as the center of the universe, and even denizens of the "new media" can become easily set in their ways. —  Jason Clarke's meta feed
 

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  1. =F. traditionnel =Spanish Portuguese tradicional, from Middle Latin traditionalis, of tradition, from Latin traditio (n-), tradition: see tradition.
 

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/treɪˈdɪʃənəl/
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