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Long primer   Listen
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Long primer  n.  (Print.) A kind of type, in size between small pica and bourgeois. Note: This line is printed in long primer.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Long primer" Quotes from Famous Books



... drew out of the roar and commotion with a look of dumb terror on his countenance. He was defeated, puzzled, discomfited, frightened. Other cities had been to him as long primer to read; as country maidens quickly to fathom; as send-price-of-subscription-with-answer refuses to solve; as oyster cocktails to swallow; but here was one as cold, glittering, serene, impossible as a four-carat diamond in a window ...
— The Trimmed Lamp and Others • O Henry

... Osborn, handing a book out of the pulpit. "It's a larger character—'long primer,' as I believe the printers call it. We'll have the lamps directly; but we are all of us rather partial to blind man's holiday—not to mention that oil is oil, and that Brother Spiers doesn't give it away. We ...
— The Devil's Garden • W. B. Maxwell



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