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Bo⋅do⋅ni

[buh-doh-nee; for 1 also It. baw-daw-nee]
–noun
1. Giam⋅bat⋅tis⋅ta [jahm-baht-tees-tah] , 1740–1813, Italian painter and printer.
2. Printing. a style of type based on a design by G. Bodoni.
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Bo·do·ni   (bō-dō'nē, bə-)   
Italian printer and designer of the Bodoni typeface, which is still widely used.
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Bodoni 
1880, typeface based on that used by celebrated It. printer Giambattista Bodoni (1740-1813). The modern type is a composite of his forms.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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