brevier

American  

[bruh-veer] / brəˈvɪər /

noun

Printing.

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

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brevier British  

/ brəˈvɪə /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of brevier

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

Example Sentences

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 Dickens, Mamie

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 Bostwick, Arthur E.

Mr. Daggett told him their names and sizes—nonpareil, brevier, agate, pica, minion and a dozen others which Bobby could not remember but which he found exotic and attractive.

From The Adventures of Bobby Orde by Brehm, Worth

He was walking by the hedge, reading, I think a brevier book with, I doubt not, a witty letter in it from Glycera or Chloe to keep the page.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

At an endurance test in New York he is reported to have set and distributed 26,000 ems solid brevier in twenty-four hours.

From Reminiscences of Pioneer Days in St. Paul by Moore, Frank