Historical The Julian calendar system, especially with reference to Russia, where it continued to be used until the early 20th century.
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:
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:
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Historical A dating system in which March 25 is the New Year's Day.
One day our neighbours came back from a trip into the jungle to visit relatives who still lived in an old-style "long house".2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 29: