| 单词 | printing letter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprinting letter printing letter n. Typography (now historical) a printing type; a typeface. ΚΠ 1580 in Bannatyne Misc. (1836) II. 204 Nynetene stane wecht of prenting lettres, price of the pund wecht, owrheid, nyne schillingis. 1676 in Bannatyne Misc. (1836) II. 283 Printinge letters. 1704 Philos. Trans. 1702–3 (Royal Soc.) 23 1510 These three Books..the whole wrought or cut upon Wood; not Set or Composed with Printing Letter; and Printed with Writing Ink. 1755 J. Smith Printer's Gram. ii. 22 The Sizes of Printing Letter would not perhaps have been carried lower than Brevier. 1824 J. Johnson Typographia II. ii. 11 The several bodies to which printing letters are cast..are nineteen in number. 1952 T. B. Reed Hist. Old Eng. Let. Foundries i. 48 The Old English was classed with the roman and italic by Moxon as one of the three orders of printing letter. < as lemmas |
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