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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Mr. Daggett told him their names and sizes—nonpareil, brevier, agate, pica, minion and a dozen others which Bobby could not remember but which he found exotic and attractive.
From The Adventures of Bobby Orde by Worth Brehm
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 Sir Owen Seaman
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 James Joyce
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 Bret Harte
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
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