Sentence examples for trad from inspiring English sources

The word 'trad' is not a recognized word in English.
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trad

noun

Irish traditional music

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Whether or not that is an accurate description, Jolie's choice of dress is not "very trad" as early rumours suggested.

He formed his Paramount band in 1956, a time when "trad" jazz, which revived the traditional New Orleans-jazz idiom, was at its height of popularity in England.

You can tune in or watch online as the gig streams from the "Lolz Lounge" (aka the Live Lounge) in front of some trad red curtains and a live audience.

This is the location for the five-star hotel's weekly Jazz Brunch – a monumental feast of local and international fare, which you can enjoy along with some trad jazz at the same time.

Her nature-themed silk squares are all hand-drawn, and the latest collection, featuring kittens and unicorns, gives the trad granny scarf a playful facelift.

Of course they don't come much more trad than Friday night's headliners Mumford and Sons, returning to another top-billed slot after closing Glastonbury two weeks ago, and they remain a mystery to this writer – both why they've achieved such inexplicable popularity and why so many hold them in such low regard.

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They have designed many neo-trad communities that seek to turn back the clock by shrinking roads, widening pavements, hiding cars and reintroducing back-alleys, porches and picket fences.

As trad-jazz popularity vanished by 1963, he transformed the Paramount band into a mainstream swing band.

Elmore James's "Sunnyland" acquires a certain trad-folk hauteur and Huey 'Piano' Smith's "Don't You Just Know It" is given a Flying Lizardesque makeover, while Hank Snow's country ballad "A Fool Such As I" is transformed by Anderson's voice and languid slide guitar into a British country-blues.

It's Black Diamond's high-end, trad-climbing harness and it's designed to be comfortable for long, all-day climbs.

It's there in the woman doomed to wait fretfully on the pier for her sailor to return in "Divers"; and in "Goose Eggs", where the trad-folk trope of the maiden left behind as Johnny marches off to war is imaginatively analogised in the image of geese "gunning in those Vs" overhead.

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