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trad, n. and a. colloq.|træd|
A. n.
1. Short for traditional jazz. Also attrib.
1956Melody Maker 12 May 8 (heading) The great trad battle. 1957Observer 13 Oct. 3/5 Lyttelton, who found ‘trad’ (traditional jazz) became play-acting and a dead-end, has travelled far from the revival days. 1963Times 4 May 13/3 In an ideal world all ‘trad’ bands would have a good gritty surface noise built in to give an air of authenticity to their records. 1965G. Melly Owning-Up xv. 194 In 1960 the Trad boom at its height, and a riot at Beaulieu. 1973G. Beare Snake on Grave viii. 41 The French like good trad and this was real old stuff out of..old Chicago. It was black men's music. 1979Globe & Mail (Toronto) 14 June 13/6 Molson's Brewery is holding a Canadian Jazz Festival July 21 and 22. Fourteen trad bands will take the stand.
2. Abbrev. of traditionalist.
1956Melody Maker 12 May 8/4 The ‘trads’ belong to a strange sort of exclusive society. 1957S. Traill Concerning Jazz 11 Those devoted to the older form of the music are referred to by the monstrous and unlovely nickname ‘trads’, (short for traditionalists). 1960Guardian 11 Jan. 5/2 The ski world is divided to-day between ‘trads’ and ‘modernists’. 1985Church Times 8 Feb. 6/3 A fresh cause for barriers to be raised between the trads and the trendies.
B. adj. Abbrev. of traditional a.
1958Spectator 25 July 133/2 A raucous trad-jazz group struck up ‘Basin Street Blues’. 1964Harper's Bazaar Nov. 110/2 For people who like to furnish as trad as possible. 1967E. Grierson Crime of one's Own xiii. 108 What's going to happen to dear Dave when even his..dirty books seem tradder than The Times' fourth leader? 1974C. O. Buchanan in R. C. D. Jasper Eucharist Today ii. 24 The Commission remained resolutely ‘trad’ until the Liturgical Conference of February 1966. 1981N.Y. Times Sunday Mag. 4 Apr. 90/2 The British fashion press reports London's new look is that of the ‘trad English gentleman’. |