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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We also enclose samples of long primer, bourgeois and brevier sizes of type.
From Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 by Slason Thompson
What do mountains become in type, or rivers in Mr. Vizetelly's best brevier?
From From Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray
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 Hamlin Garland
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
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
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