Definitions for breviers

breviers bre·vier

Spelling: [bruh-veer]
IPA: /brəˈvɪər/

Breviers is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 152 anagrams from letters in breviers (beeirrsv).

Definitions for breviers

noun

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

Origin of breviers

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

Examples for breviers

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.

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.

Word Value for breviers
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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