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-style, suffix
forming adjs. and advbs.
1. Appended to adjs.a. Forming adjs. having the sense ‘resembling or characteristic of something that is―’.
1934Discovery June 174/1 He will have to put up at a Japanese style hotel. 1958Listener 11 Sept. 368/1 He was dressed in European-style clothes. 1960W. Thorp Amer. Writing in 20th Cent. 296 A series of events..convinced [them] that revolution, Russian-style, would never take place in America. 1966[see sedan 1 c]. 1975Country Life 20 Mar. 747/2 Elegant regency-style restaurant.
b. Forming advbs. with the sense ‘in a manner that is―’. colloq.
1967G. Kelly in Coast to Coast 1965–6 95 Bill Beatty leant across the table, his cigarette dangling casual style from his fingers. 1976T. Sharpe Wilt (1978) vi. 61 We're here idyllicstyle, cruising down the river in the good old summertime.
2. Appended to ns., forming advbs. and adjs. with the general sense ‘(in a manner) characteristic of or befitting―’.
The advb. use is highly colloq.
1944W. Saroyan Human Comedy xxiv. 166 He whistled, newsboy style. 1949Amer.-German Rev. Apr. 10 Meals were served family-style. 1973Guardian 31 Jan. 5/2 An election-style budget. |