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brevier
[ bruh-veer ]
noun
, Printing.
- a size of type approximately 8-point, between minion and bourgeois.
brevier
/ brəˈvɪə /
noun
- (formerly) a size of printer's type approximately equal to 8 point
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of brevier1
C16: probably from Dutch, literally: breviary ; so called because this type size was used for breviaries
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Example Sentences
We also enclose samples of long primer, bourgeois and brevier sizes of type.
From Project Gutenberg
A complete series of type of a particular size is called a font; as a font of brevier, or of pica.
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Two columns of brevier—without the adornment of the usual line-cut.
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This is the day when I have to make up my five columns—seven hundred lines, brevier type.
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Bourgeois, bur-jois′, n. a kind of printing type, larger than brevier and smaller than longprimer.
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