vernacular style

collocation in English

meaningsofvernacularandstyle

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vernacular
adjective
uk
/vəˈnæk.jə.lər/us
/vɚˈnæk.jə.lɚ/
using the form of a language that a particular group of speakers use naturally, especially in ...
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style
noun
uk
/staɪl/us
/staɪl/
a way of doing something, especially one that is typical of a person, group of people, place, ...
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(Definition ofvernacularandstylefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofvernacular style

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Thevernacularstylein the body of the affidavits suggested that the testimony was most likely transcribed literally.
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There is absolutely no doubt that the proposed buildings are not set back or built invernacularstyle, as a layman would understand it.
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They want to occupy modern, well-built, low-rise housing, which the professionals describe as living in thevernacularstyle.
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Mendip district council does not have a great number of thatched cottages—that is not avernacularstyle for that area—but it does have many historic buildings.
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Thevernacularstylebuilding was completed in 1916, replacing a previous structure destroyed in a hurricane.
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This impressive architectural complex consists of nine fishermen's cottages, which are all typical examples of the traditionalvernacularstyle.
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The cottage is built invernacularstylein timber, with tar-based weatherproofing, like others nearby.
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Most houses are two-story frame residences built between 1840 to 1900, principally from avernacularstyle.
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This cinema was built in thevernacularstyleof cinemas of that period.
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Conversely, projects with limited budgets that precluded ostentatious and derivative design often resulted a kind ofvernacularstylethat responded to local conditions.
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Its exterior was complete restyled in a 19th-centuryvernacularstyle.
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It was built in 1881 in the framevernacularstyleof architecture.
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The partners preferred the simplevernacularstyleand made it their aim to improve housing standards for the working classes.
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The other villages were built in a more traditional/vernacularstyle.
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This interesting architectural group of buildings consists of four attached houses in thevernacularstyle.
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His magazines and newspapers were mostly published invernacularstyle, which greatly facilitated other journalists and readers to read.
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In the early 1900s, houses were often built in the framevernacularstyle.
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Written more purely in thevernacularstylethan any earlier poetry, it values all humanity alike rather than taking an aristocratic viewpoint.
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