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black letter
noun
, Printing.
- a heavy-faced type in a style like that of early European hand lettering and the earliest printed books.
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- black-letter adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of black letter1
First recorded in 1630–40
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Example Sentences
Had she only followed “black letter law,” the wife would have lost her home.
From The Daily Beast
Others may deem the knotted subtleties of black-letter a sorry recompense for the "wild crash and tumult of the fray."
From Project Gutenberg
I have no manner of natural taste for study, and poring, and expounding, and black-letter work.
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Do not let it hence be said that black letter lore is the only fashionable pursuit of the present age of book collectors.
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The paper was to be of hand-made linen, from the Kelmscott Mills; the type black-letter, with rubricated initials.
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This book is the true history of his reign, and would be worth to us fifty black-letter Caxtons.
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