brevier
a size of type approximately 8-point, between minion and bourgeois.
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We also enclose samples of long primer, bourgeois and brevier sizes of type.
Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions | Slason ThompsonA complete series of type of a particular size is called a font; as a font of brevier, or of pica.
Up To Date Business | VariousTwo columns of brevier—without the adornment of the usual line-cut.
The Silver Poppy | Arthur StringerThis is the day when I have to make up my five columns—seven hundred lines, brevier type.
Bourgeois, bur-jois′, n. a kind of printing type, larger than brevier and smaller than longprimer.
British Dictionary definitions for brevier
/ (brəˈvɪə) /
(formerly) a size of printer's type approximately equal to 8 point
Origin of brevier
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