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wrong fount

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noun

  1.  wf.  printing an error in which a type of the wrong face or size is used

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He had gone however, to the wrong fount, for information this time, as Ovide wonderingly shook his head, and said, "Dat is de queerest ting I'm never see, sir."

From A Lover in Homespun And Other Stories by Smith, F. Clifford (Frank Clifford)

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