"historic reference" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used when describing a specific event or time period that is significant in history and is being mentioned or alluded to in a sentence. Example: The professor's lecture on the French Revolution was filled with historic references to the reign of King Louis XVI and the storming of the Bastille.
Finally, when popular culture can't explain what's befallen us, there's always historic reference.
"In some cases, the architects have not paid attention to historic reference, and it just looks haphazard," he said.
But that historic reference has been washed away this year as residents have repeatedly had to muck out their houses and businesses.
"With the historic reference and our puerile interests, it seemed a shame not to bring it into the piece," says Rosenberg.
To understand the building's crazed ambition, its monumental scale and its determined avoidance of any historic reference or cliche, you need to know that Kharkiv was the capital of "Soviet Ukraine" from 1919 to 1934.
Most attempts to define urban ecology generally use biodiversity, as the primary metric and take the traditional approach of comparing an index of measured urban diversity to a hypothetical historic reference.
Paris 1919 wears its literary and historic references lightly.
"It's basically taking the Black family's historic references away from them".
The buildings, meanwhile, gradually lose their decorative mouldings and historic references, stripped back to a more austere language, with traditional Scottish features rendered as bold abstract volumes.
Most of his collections are overlaid with historic references — this season to Victorianism, falconry and "Macbeth" — but instead of informing him, they serve as a kind of barrier.
Regardless of our poetic allusions and historic references, when we talk about the Nile, we are talking about water: a fundamental right for all people, regardless of geography.
