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leaded type en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (historical, uncountable, usually) 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. 1897, William Cowper Brann, “Bradley-Martin Bal-Masque”, in Brann The Iconoclast, volume 1, published 1905, page 304:
  2. (historical, uncountable, usually) 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. 1896, Robert Barr, A Woman Intervenes:

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