brevier

[bruh-veer]

noun Printing.

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

Origin of brevier

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

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Examples from the Web for brevier

Historical Examples of brevier

Two columns of brevier—without the adornment of the usual line-cut.
The Silver Poppy
Arthur Stringer
Bourgeois, bur-jois′, n. a kind of printing type, larger than brevier and smaller than longprimer.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)
Various
This is the day when I have to make up my five columns—seven hundred lines, brevier type.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 8, 1916
Various
We also enclose samples of long primer, bourgeois and brevier sizes of type.
Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions
Slason Thompson
A complete series of type of a particular size is called a font; as a font of brevier, or of pica.
Up To Date Business
Various

British Dictionary definitions for brevier

brevier

noun

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

Word Origin for brevier

C16: probably from Dutch, literally: breviary; so called because this type size was used for breviaries

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