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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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
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 Seaman, Owen, Sir
That was David H. Mason, the tariff expert, whose handwriting was habitually so infinitesimal that he put more than a column of brevier type matter on a single page, note-paper size.
From Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 by Thompson, Slason
What do mountains become in type, or rivers in Mr. Vizetelly's best brevier?
From From Cornhill to Grand Cairo by Thackeray, William Makepeace
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 Nye, Bill
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