neo-traditionalistadj.n.

1939 E. B. Shaw tr. C. K. Terrasse French Painting in XXth Cent. 9 Renoir is in the purest French tradition... Hardly a single artist of the neo-traditionalist group..has remained un-influenced by him.

1956 Internat. Social Sci. Bull. 8 458 An intermediate tendency represented by the neo-traditionalist members of the intellectual elite and the most progressive of the traditional elite.

1979 Dædalus Winter 128 The deep disillusionment with the West and the trend (mainly among neotraditionalist forces but also in part on the Left) toward a..more nonaligned role.

2000 U.S. News & World Rep. 20 Mar. 64/1 Only 20 years ago, he and his wife..launched a neotraditionalist revival in town planning, challenging the ways Americans had been building suburbs, and rebuilding cities, for a generation.

1939 E. B. Shaw tr. C. K. Terrasse French Painting in XXth Cent. 14 The Fauves are in fact not of bourgeois origin like the neo-traditionalists, who were content with the social order to which they had adapted themselves.

1962 Transition Jan. 16 The uneasy alliance between the U.N.C. and the neo-traditionalists was soon ended.

1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 25 Apr. ii. 19/1 George Rochberg is not so much an American traditionalist as an American neo-traditionalist.

1993 New Mexico Daily Lobo 21 Sept. 5/5 When he appeared on the country scene he was called a neotraditionalist. In the wake of ‘Urban Cowboy’, he was a reminder of country's past and thus an embarrassment.