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black letter definition

black letter

a kind of heavy-faced, ornamental printing type: also called Gothic, Old English, or text

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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