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noun Printing.
a heavy-faced type in a style like that of early European hand lettering and the
earliest printed books.


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Also called text.


ORIGIN OF BLACK LETTER

First recorded in 1630–40



OTHER WORDS FROM BLACK LETTER

black-letter, adjective



WORDS NEARBY BLACK LETTER

black knight, black knot, black land, black lead, blackleg, black letter,
black-letter day, black light, black-light trap, black liquor, blacklist

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HOW TO USE BLACK LETTER IN A SENTENCE

 * Had she only followed “black letter law,” the wife would have lost her home.
   
   Female Judges From Around the Globe Convene in D.C.|Eve Conant|April 2,
   2011|DAILY BEAST

 * Others may deem the knotted subtleties of black-letter a sorry recompense for
   the "wild crash and tumult of the fray."
   
   The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II)|Charles James Lever

 * I have no manner of natural taste for study, and poring, and expounding, and
   black-letter work.
   
   Camilla|Fanny Burney

 * Do not let it hence be said that black letter lore is the only fashionable
   pursuit of the present age of book collectors.
   
   Prices of Books|Henry B. Wheatley

 * The paper was to be of hand-made linen, from the Kelmscott Mills; the type
   black-letter, with rubricated initials.
   
   The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue|Various

 * This book is the true history of his reign, and would be worth to us fifty
   black-letter Caxtons.
   
   A Walk from London to Fulham|Thomas Crofton Croker

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BRITISH DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS FOR BLACK LETTER


black letter


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noun
printing another name for Gothic (def. 10)

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