cold type
nounPrinting.
type set by a method other than the casting of molten metal, as text composed on a typewriter and photographed.
Origin of cold type
1First recorded in 1945–50
- Compare hot metal.
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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 SmithNot 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 SimondsThe cold type and the insentiate page constitute at best only the record of nature's rarest gift.
Starr King in California | William Day SimondsDescribed in cold type, the counseling process probably appears a little sticky.
The Armed Forces Officer | U. S. Department of DefenseWhile I'm gone just see how pretty those stories look in cold type.
Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks | Charles Felton Pidgin
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