small pica

noun

(formerly) a size of printer's type approximately equal to 11 point

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How to use small pica in a sentence

Printed on small pica it would run to eight hundred pages, and could never pay.
Waverley | Sir Walter Scott
The foreman thereupon jumped on Mr. Visscher with a small pica wrought iron side stick.
Remarks | Bill Nye
His status should be differentiated and embalmed in due longitudinal sections of small pica.
The Army Mule and Other War Sketches | Henry A. Castle
The type resembles our small pica, and the paper has the water-mark Auvergne 1749.
Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 | Various
Printed on small-pica it would run to eight hundred pages, and could never pay.
Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete | Sir Walter Scott

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