brevier

[ bruh-veer ]

/ brəˈvɪər /

a size of type approximately 8-point, between minion and bourgeois.

Origin of brevier

1590–1600; < German: literally, breviary; so called from use in printing breviaries

Bourgeois, bur-jois′, n. a kind of printing type, larger than brevier and smaller than longprimer.

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) |Various
Two columns of brevier—without the adornment of the usual line-cut.

The Silver Poppy |Arthur Stringer
This is the day when I have to make up my five columns—seven hundred lines, brevier type.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 8, 1916 |Various
A complete series of type of a particular size is called a font; as a font of brevier, or of pica.

Up To Date Business |Various

We also enclose samples of long primer, bourgeois and brevier sizes of type.

Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions |Slason Thompson

brevier

/ (brəˈvɪə) /

(formerly) a size of printer's type approximately equal to 8 point

C16: probably from Dutch, literally: breviary; so called because this type size was used for breviaries