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Black-letter

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Black´-let`ter
a.1.Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book.
2.Given to the study of books in black letter; that is, of old books; out of date.
Kemble, a black-letter man!
- J. Boaden.
3.Of or pertaining to the days in the calendar not marked with red letters as saints' days; - compare red-letter.


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Around the walls stood several oaken bookcases, the lower shelves of which were filled with rows of gigantic folios and black-letter quartos, and the upper with little parchment-covered duodecimos.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
True enough, thought I, as this passage occurred to my mind --old black-letter, thou reasonest well.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
In Grandfather's younger days there used to be a wax figure of him in one of the Boston museums, representing a solemn, dark-visaged person, in a minister's black gown, and with a black-letter volume before him.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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