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small advertisement

British  

noun

  1. a short, simply designed advertisement in a newspaper or magazine, usually set entirely in a small size of type See display advertisement

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Australians browsing the The Age newspaper recently may have spotted a rather startling small advertisement.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2023

Emboldened by the success of his first piano recitals in Mexico, Iturbi organized an orchestra of 75 "professors," inserted a small advertisement in a newspaper saying that he would conduct it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then people began to notice a small advertisement on the first page of the morning papers, headed The Vigilance Committee.

From The Forty-Niners A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado by White, Stewart Edward

If you take a half-dozen lines to the advertising clerk, he will charge you two or three dollars; and there are several hundred times as much as your small advertisement in each paper.

From Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls by Anonymous

A small advertisement in Harper’s Bazar, August 9, 1873, announced that in addition to gauze undershirts, linen drawers, collars and cuffs, Union Adams & Co. of New York had bathing dresses for sale.

From Women's Bathing and Swimming Costume in the United States by Kidwell, Claudia B.