vernacular
Example Sentences
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The painting’s full-length figures, like those in Old Master official portraits, are here translated into a contemporary vernacular, with a radiant Aline Charigot, Renoir’s future wife, in the arms of his friend Paul Lhote.
These events will remain the game's "tentpoles", to use the latest corporate vernacular.
From BBC
When he made it one of his catch phrases on ESPN, the expression entered the sports vernacular.
From Los Angeles Times
Two, he brought a black vernacular and sensibility to sports announcing in a way that embraced an entire constituency of viewers who, yes, were very interested in sports.
He was a magician, a linguist who reinvented and built his own emotional vernacular.
From Los Angeles Times
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