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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Bourgeois, brevier, minion, and nonpareil, long primer, turn-ups, dunning advertisements, and reprints, back forme, imposing-stone, and locking-up, are all quite out of their way, and a sort of slang that they have no interest in.
From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 3, 1836-1870 by Mamie Dickens
It is a sermon, a song, a circus, an obituary, a picnic, a shipwreck, a symphony in solid brevier, a medley of life and death, a grand aggregation of man's glory and his shame.
From Remarks by Bill Nye
Serene Highness, Princess Helen, honoured the Misses Reid and Bryant last evening at a soiree.'—leaded brevier every morning on the editorial page.
From The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day by Harriet Stark
The body of the bill, printed in brevier, is as it came from the House.
From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by John Sherman
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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