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Old Style en · NOUN
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(historical, uncountable) The Julian calendar system, especially with reference to Russia, where it continued to be used until the early 20th century.
As the [Manx] people reckon this festival according to the Old Style, Hollantide in the Isle of Man is our twelfth of November.
1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 10, page 244:The banded ones were all dressed in white gowns — a gay survival from Old Style days, when cheerfulness and May-time were synonyms — days before the habit of taking long views had reduced emotions to a monotonous average.
1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 16:
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(historical, uncountable) A dating system in which March 25 is the New Year's Day.
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