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church-text
The Old English or ‘Black-letter’ as used on monumental brasses, in stained glass windows, and for similar purposes; also, in a condensed form, as a modern printing type.
1684Progress 1st Dk. Beaufort 9 The inscription following in church text bordering its edge: Here lyeth, etc. 1875Ure Dict. Arts III. 641 All the varieties of church-text, German-text, Gothic, and Elizabethan. 1884Messrs. J. Parker & Co., Spec. of Type 16 Two-line English Church Text, etc. |