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noun
A small size of type, in French and Italian printing, usually conflated with brevier but technically treated as 71⁄2 Didot points.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, uncountable
Topics: media, printing, publishing
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Calque of French petit-texte.
Across languages
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