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leaded type

noun

Definitions

  1. Printed type which is set with extra leading in such a way as to give the text greater…

    Printed type which is set with extra leading in such a way as to give the text greater emphasis.

    • A thousand editors have screamed in leaded type that it were "worse for the wealthy to hoard than waste.

  2. Printed type in general, as opposed to engravings or handwritten documents.

    • There, in leaded type, was the article before him. It seemed, somehow, much more important on the printed page than it had looked in the proof.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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