A characteristic manner or style of preparing food.

This led the way to the characteristic manner in which Golden Age painters portrayed the common, everyday life.

Many of the letters are in the Queen's autograph, and in her characteristic manner, which is firm if not always clear.

The onlookers who had hoped to watch an amusing spectacle reacted in a characteristic manner.

Not many continued the characteristic manner of dress, but this one kept to the way of his ancestors.

One brow arched in a manner never characteristic of his wife.

They have blue skin and a characteristic manner of speaking which makes most of their speech sound slurred.

In his characteristic manner, though, Turgeon played down the incident.

Blake stared back; his eyebrows crept together in the characteristic manner when he was annoyed.

Hardesty screamed in a manner not exactly characteristic of local horsemanship.