brevier

American  

[bruh-veer] / brəˈvɪər /

noun

Printing.

1. a size of type approximately 8-point, between minion and bourgeois.

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brevier British  

/ brəˈvɪə /

noun

1. (formerly) a size of printer's type approximately equal to 8 point

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Etymology

Origin of brevier

1590–1600; < German: literally, breviary; so called from use in printing breviaries

Example Sentences

Mr. Daggett told him their names and sizes—nonpareil, brevier, agate, pica, minion and a dozen others which Bobby could not remember but which he found exotic and attractive.

From The Adventures of Bobby Orde by Brehm, Worth

More or less arbitrary names—such as minion, bourgeois, brevier, and nonpareil,—were formerly used; but what is called the point-system is now practically universal, although its unit, the “point,” is not everywhere the same.

From A Librarian's Open Shelf by Bostwick, Arthur E.

Do you suppose I'm going to do anything to spoil a half-column of leaded brevier copy—from an eye-witness, too?

From Colonel Starbottle's Client by Harte, Bret

Hitherto his name had been most inconspicuous; only once or twice had it achieved a long-primer setting; mainly it had kept to the security and dignity of brevier notices in the Army and Navy Journal.

From The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop by Garland, Hamlin

At an endurance test in New York he is reported to have set and distributed 26,000 ems solid brevier in twenty-four hours.

From Reminiscences of Pioneer Days in St. Paul by Moore, Frank