brevier

American  

[bruh-veer] / brəˈvɪər /

noun

Printing.

1. a size of type approximately 8-point, between minion and bourgeois.

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brevier British  

/ brəˈvɪə /

noun

1. (formerly) a size of printer's type approximately equal to 8 point

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Etymology

Origin of brevier

1590–1600; < German: literally, breviary; so called from use in printing breviaries

Example Sentences

He was walking by the hedge, reading, I think a brevier book with, I doubt not, a witty letter in it from Glycera or Chloe to keep the page.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

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

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.

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 Eaton, Seymour

Do you suppose I'm going to do anything to spoil a half-column of leaded brevier copy—from an eye-witness, too?

From Colonel Starbottle's Client by Harte, Bret