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noun
The size of type between minion and bourgeois, standardized as 8-point.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, uncountable
Topics: media, printing, publishing, typography
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Probably from Old French or Anglo-Norman *brevier, from Latin breviārium (“breviary”), presumably from its use in printing them, hence a doublet of breviary and brimborion. Most breviaries were not, however, printed with such small type, leading some to conjecture that it instead derived from cognates of brief and has a meaning similar to French petit and German Petit.
Across languages
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
