great primer
an 18-point type of a size larger than Columbian, formerly used for Bibles.
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How to use great primer in a sentence
Erickson shot the words at him staccato-fashion, as if they were things known from great primer days.
The Day Time Stopped Moving | Bradner BucknerI saw all this as plainly as if it had all been printed in great-primer type, instead of working itself out in her features.
The Poet at the Breakfast Table | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.By 1544 a fount of great primer had been completed and a book printed in it, the Praeparatio Euangelica of Eusebius.
Fine Books | Alfred W. PollardIt was not until 1757 that he published his first work, a Virgil in royal quarto, with great-primer letters.
This Simian World | Clarence DayHis great primer, for which he has been especially noted by some bibliographers, was very probably that used by Richard Faques.
A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 | Henry R. Plomer
British Dictionary definitions for great primer
(formerly) a size of printer's type approximately equal to 18 point
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