brevier
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of brevier
1590–1600; < German: literally, breviary; so called from use in printing breviaries
Example Sentences
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A complete series of type of a particular size is called a font; as a font of brevier, or of pica.
From Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) by Seymour Eaton
A size of type between long primer and brevier.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
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 Arthur E. Bostwick
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 Hamlin Garland
This is the day when I have to make up my five columns—seven hundred lines, brevier type.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 8, 1916 by Sir Owen Seaman
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