Old script typeface used throughout Western Europe.
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Examples for "black letter "
Examples for "black letter "
1 His view might conform with the black letter rules but not common sense.
2 It was printed at Naples, in the black letter , in the year 1529.
3 These plays are printed in a black letter in 4to.
4 The impression is in black letter , printed in long lines, with rather coarse wood-cuts.
5 There is a rare black letter still extant, entitled, [Letter by F.B.
1 The preceding, line for line, is printed in a large gothic type : the rest of the work in a small close gothic letter.
2 By 1826 the Waverley novels had made all previous fiction of the Gothic type hopelessly obsolete.
3 The Gothic type of architecture of this court has not been accredited to any preceding period.
4 The family members seemed uncomfortable with the unabashed display of emotions from the pierced-and-tattooed gothic types mingling among them.
5 It was a huge parchment, with pictorial embellishments, heavy Gothic type and a seal about the size of a pie.
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This collocation consists of: Translations for gothic type