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
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 Leland, Charles Godfrey
More or less arbitrary names—such as minion, bourgeois, brevier, and nonpareil,—were formerly used; but what is called the point-system is now practically universal, although its unit, the “point,” is not everywhere the same.
From A Librarian's Open Shelf by Bostwick, Arthur E.
What do mountains become in type, or rivers in Mr. Vizetelly's best brevier?
From From Cornhill to Grand Cairo by Thackeray, William Makepeace
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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