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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In many printing offices the type is known as 6-point, 8-point, 10-point, etc., instead of as nonpareil, brevier, long primer, etc.
From Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) by Eaton, Seymour
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
What do mountains become in type, or rivers in Mr. Vizetelly's best brevier?
From From Cornhill to Grand Cairo by Thackeray, William Makepeace
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
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