body type

American  

noun

Printing.

1. type used in the main text of printed matter, generally less than 14 points.

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Etymology

Origin of body type

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

The Dr. Oz Show Body type and Alzheimer’s; foods to fix memory; the possibility of an Alzheimer’s prevention pill.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2018

Says Greenwood: "Body type, like hair color and the distance between your eyes, is inherited, and the same is true for the distance between your fatty deposits."

From Time Magazine Archive

Body type was no modulus, nor price, nor size as measured by wheelbase.

From Time Magazine Archive

Body type, that is, those classes ever seen in ordinary print, aside from display and fancy styles, is in thirteen classes, the smallest technically called brilliant and the largest great primer.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891 by Various