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black letter

–noun Printing.

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

Also called text.

Origin:
1630–40

Related forms:

black-letter, adjective

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Main Entry: black–let·ter
Function: adjective
: having wide acceptance and great authority and often written down <black–letter law>

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