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Long Primer
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English
long primer
Alternative forms
en long-primer longprimer long primer
Etymology
Initially from en primer prayer book from its use in those volumes in Protestant England. The qualifier was subsequently added to distinguish it from en great primerOxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed. "primer, n.1". Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2007. and may derive from early editions published on long duodecimo paper.The Practice of Typography, p. 65.
Proper noun
Long Primer
en printing dated The size of type between bourgeois and small pica, standardized as 10-point.
Synonyms
German contexts en corpus, en Garamond
Translations
Dutch: nl Garmond, nl Dessendiaan
French: fr petit-romain
German: de Korpus, de Corpus, South German, Austrian, Swiss de Garmond
Italian: it Garamona
Polish: pl garmond m, pl garmont m
Spanish: es entredós, es filosofía
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