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black letter

noun

Definitions

  1. A highly calligraphic Western European script style used from approximately 1150.

    • Also we discovered what is still more curious, an English version of the black-letter Latin.
    • The original boldface printing types are the blackletters used by Gutenberg in the 1440s. For the next two centuries, blackletter fonts were widely used not only in Germany but in France, Spain, the Netherlands and England.

  2. The basic standard elements for a particular field of law, which are generally known and…

    The basic standard elements for a particular field of law, which are generally known and free from doubt or dispute.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for black letter. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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