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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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 Webster, Noah
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
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
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
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
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