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of a style associated with rural areas as country style sausage...
New style
New style. The modern system of computing time was introduced into Great Britain in 1752 by the Calendar (New Style) Act, 1750 (24 Geo. 2, c. 23), the 3rd of September of that year being reckoned as the 14th. See NEW YEAR'S DAY....
Directoire style
A style of dress prevalent at the time of the French Directory characterized by great extravagance of design and imitating the Greek and Roman costumes...
Old style
Old style. See NEW YEAR'S DAY...
Style
Style, to call, name, or entitle one; the title or appellation of a person. See also CALENDAR, and NEW YEAR'S DAY....
Calendar
Calendar [fr. Calendarium, Lat.; fr. Calend', the first day in the month in Roman reckoning], the order and series of months, together with the festivals and fasts, which make up the year. There are two modes of computing time-by the annual course of the sun, and by the periodical revolutions of the moon. The solar year consists of 365 days, 5 hours, 48', 45', 30'; the lunar year of 354 days, 3 hours, 48', 38', 12'. The Mohammedans adopt the lunar year. The solar year, calculated by the ancient Egyptians, has undergone various corrections and denominations.The chief of the calendars now in use are the three following: (1) The Julian, so called because Julius C'sar introduced into the Roman Empire the solar or Egyptian year, instead of the lunar year. The Russians and Greeks are the only nations that now use the Julian year. The common Julian year consists of 365 days, and the bissextile or leap-year (see that title), which returns every four years, of 366 days. This computation is faul...
Fashion
Fashion, includes a popular trend or a life-style, specially in styles of dress and ornament or manners of behaviour or the business of creating, promoting or studying styles in vogue or the designing, production and marketing of new styles of goods such as, clothing accessories, craft and cosmetics; and the words 'fashion technology' with their grammatical variations and cognate expressions, shall be construed accordingly, National Institute of Fashion Technology Act, 2006, s. 2(e)....
Feasts
Feasts, anniversary days of rejoining, either on a civil or religious occasion; opposed to fasts. Our feasts are either (1) immovable, such as Christmas-day, the Circumcision, Epiphany, Candlemas-day, Lady-day, All Saints, and All Souls, besides the days of the several apostles, St. Peter, St. Thomas, etc.: these are always celebrated on the same day of the year; or (2) movable, such as Easter,which fixes all the rest, as Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Ash Wednesday, Sexagesima, Ascension-day, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, etc. The four principal immovable feasts of the year, which are commonly assigned in England for the payment of rents on leases, are the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or Lady-day, being the 25th of March; the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, held on the 24th of June; the feast of St. Michael on the 29th of September; and Christmas-day on the 25th of December.A still unrepealed Act of 1551-2 (5 & 6 Edw. 6, c. 3), directs certain days therein mentioned (being all S...
Cantabile
In a melodious flowing style in a singing style as opposed to bravura recitativo or parlando...
Dial
An instrument formerly much used for showing the time of day from the shadow of a style or gnomon on a graduated arc or surface esp a sundial but there are lunar and astral dials The style or gnomon is usually parallel to the earths axis but the dial plate may be either horizontal or vertical...
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