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

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Example Sentences

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brevier

F. bourgeois of the middle class; hence applied to an intermediate size of type between brevier and long primer: cf.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

The reader may be thankful that I have it not, for I foresee that I shall easily recall enough to fill ten folios of a thousand pages solid brevier each, at this rate of reminiscences. 

From Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland

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

Her nose, italicized brevier, Too lovely to describe by penpoint; Her mouth is set in pearl: her ear And chin are comely Caslon ten-point.

From Chimneysmoke by Christopher Morley

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

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