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tradition
A tradition is a belief or behavior (folk custom) passed down within a group or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past. A component of cultural expressions and folklore, common examples include holidays ...
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Trad jazz
Trad jazz, short for "traditional jazz", is a form of jazz in the United States and Britain in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, played by musicians such as Chris Barber, Acker Bilk, Kenny Ball, Ken Colyer and Monty Sunshine, based on a revival ...
, a style of jazz music in the 1950s and 1960s
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Néo-trad, a musical style that arose in Quebec around the turn of the 21st century
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Irish traditional music
Irish traditional music (also known as Irish trad, Irish folk music, and other variants) is a genre of folk music that developed in Ireland.
In ''A History of Irish Music'' (1905), W. H. Grattan Flood wrote that, in Gaelic Ireland, there we ...
, a genre of folk music that developed in Ireland
Places
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Trat Province, Thailand, also spelt Trad
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Trat, a town in Thailand
Other uses
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Ivy League clothes, a style of men's dress, popular during the late 1950s
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Traditional climbing
Traditional climbing (or Trad climbing) is a style of rock climbing in which the climber places all the necessary protection gear required to arrest any falls as they are climbing, and then removes it when the pitch is complete (often done ...
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Trojan skinhead, subculture also known as traditional or trad skinheads
See also
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Tradescantia
''Tradescantia'' () is a genus of 85 species of herbaceous perennial wildflowers in the family Commelinaceae, native to the Americas from southern Canada to northern Argentina, including the West Indies. Members of the genus are known by many com ...
'' or Spiderwort, a genus of plant species in the family ''Commelinaceae''
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