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BLACK LETTER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does black letter mean?
• BLACK LETTER (noun)
The noun BLACK LETTER has 1 sense:
1. a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries
Familiarity information: BLACK LETTER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
black letter; Gothic
Hypernyms ("black letter" is a kind of...):
case; face; font; fount; typeface (a specific size and style of type within a type family)
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