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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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
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
The body of the bill, printed in brevier, is as it came from the House.
From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by John Sherman
A complete series of type of a particular size is called a font; as a font of brevier, or of pica.
From Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) by Seymour Eaton
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 Slason Thompson
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