brevier

/bruh-veer/US // brəˈvɪər //UK // (brəˈvɪə) //

勃利维尔,勃利维,勃利维耶,勃利维耳

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
Printing.
- : a size of type approximately 8-point, between minion and bourgeois.

We also enclose samples of long primer, bourgeois and brevier sizes of type.
A complete series of type of a particular size is called a font; as a font of brevier, or of pica.
Two columns of brevier—without the adornment of the usual line-cut.
This is the day when I have to make up my five columns—seven hundred lines, brevier type.
Bourgeois, bur-jois′, n. a kind of printing type, larger than brevier and smaller than longprimer.