cold type


nounPrinting.
  1. type set by a method other than the casting of molten metal, as text composed on a typewriter and photographed.

Origin of cold type

1
First recorded in 1945–50

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How to use cold type in a sentence

  • And then her Southern speech, indescribable and impossible in cold type.

    Peter | F. Hopkinson Smith
  • Not wholly, for even in "cold type" some measure of the power and persuasiveness of the orator's argument is suggested.

    Starr King in California | William Day Simonds
  • The cold type and the insentiate page constitute at best only the record of nature's rarest gift.

    Starr King in California | William Day Simonds
  • Described in cold type, the counseling process probably appears a little sticky.

    The Armed Forces Officer | U. S. Department of Defense
  • While I'm gone just see how pretty those stories look in cold type.