Definitions For Brevier

Noun

BREVIER (uncountable) (typography, printing, dated) The size of type between minion and bourgeois, standardized as 8-point.

Synonyms

French contexts small text French and German contexts petit

Derived terms

two-line brevier

Related terms

{{l, nl, breviary}}

Translations

{{trans-top}} Dutch: petit, brevier, f, galjard French: gaillarde, petit-texte German: Petit, Jungfer, Jungfrawschrift Italian: testino Spanish: gallarda

Etymology

Probably from {{etyl, fro, en}} or {{etyl, xno, en}} *brevier, from {{der, en, la, breviārium, , breviary}}, presumably from its use in printing them. 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.Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "brevier, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1888.