Definitions for brevier

brevier bre·vier

Spelling: [bruh-veer]
IPA: /brəˈvɪər/

Brevier is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in brevier (beeirrv).

Definitions for brevier

noun

  1. 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

Examples for brevier

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

A complete series of type of a particular size is called a font; as a font of brevier, or of pica.

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

This is the day when I have to make up my five columns—seven hundred lines, brevier type.

Two columns of brevier—without the adornment of the usual line-cut.

Word Value for brevier
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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