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blacklettered en · ADJ

Etymology

From black + lettered.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Written in black letter.
    • In the summer before Nick's senior year of high school, when Nick no longer left a three o'clock but stayed until the end of the working day, his father wrote the boy's name on a strip of masking tape and stuck it on the office door, right under his own blacklettered name. 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 15, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 92: